Dementors.

Today I am grateful that I am not a dementor.

If you don't know what that is I am excusing you from this blog.

because clearly we can no longer be friends.

Dementors.

They are from the wonderful universe of Harry Potter.

and they are the keepers of Azkaban. The wizarding prison.

and are defined as such:

"Dementors are among the foulest creatures that walk this earth. They infest the darkest, filthiest places, they glory in decay and despair, they drain peace, hope, and happiness out of the air around them... Get too near a Dementor and every good feeling, every happy memory will be sucked out of you. If it can, the Dementor will feed on you long enough to reduce you to something like itself...soulless and evil. You will be left with nothing but the worst experiences of your life."

peachy right?

but dementors aren't real, you say? How can I be grateful for not being a dementor when it's clearly a mythical being? and really? can anyone possibly really be that awful?

I'm telling you now. They can.

Have you ever just met someone who is completely capable of ruining your day without even doing anything at all?

don't lie, i'm sure everyone knows at least one person like that.

either a family member.

a friend of a friend.

a co-worker.

someone who is so negative all the time that they suck the very happiness out of you whenever you are around them. they bring down everyone they interact with. it would almost be considered a super power if it wasn't so spectacularly horrifying. you dread seeing this person. this person actually gives you anxiety when you are not around them because you just can't help thinking about what stupid or insulting or rude thing this person may or may not say to you the next time you see them. they are simply evil.

just like a dementor.

but there is one redeeming quality that these dementor-like people do have going for them. they make they rest of us extemely grateful to NOT be like them. they make us want to be better. they make us want to see the positive side in some things. they make us want to never reach that level of bitchidom because you know first hand just how much you have to literally hold yourself back so that you don't reach out and cuff a bitch upside the head. they make us never want to have anyone look at us and think "wow, you remind me of a dementor!" and I am grateful that at this point in my life, I don't believe that there is anyone who would quite define me this way.

but i guess anything is possible.

and now that I think about it...that person can sometimes even look like a dementor too...

Thanks for reading!
Lana