Beware of the Emotional Siphoner

Happy Hump day to all of my blog followers! If the work week was a race, we would be close to the half way mark. At midnight tonight, you will have 5,760 minutes of your 10,080 minute week logged in your personal history book. How have you spent those minutes? How are you preparing to end the race week? Have you been successful in refueling your “Happiness Tanks” when they become empty? Have you allowed others to siphon off the fuel in your “Happiness Tanks?”

Awe…“siphon.”  Something a “siphoner” does. Merriam Webster’s website defines the word siphon as a tube bent to form two legs of unequal length by which a liquid can be transferred to a lower level over an intermediate elevation by the pressure of the atmosphere in forcing the liquid up the shorter branch of the tube immersed in it while the excess of weight of the liquid in the longer branch when once filled causes a continuous flow. Have you ever met an “emotional siphoner?” Not sure what an “emotional siphoner” is? Pause and check out the Progressive Insurance Commercial by clicking here. Yes it is kind of like that.

“Emotional Siphoner?” defined by CDR_Writing is a two legged acquaintance of yours that is so miserable that they can only find a fleeting ounce of happiness by attaching themselves to a happy friend so they can transfer said friends happiness to their lower level.  Said attachment will cause a continuous flow of happiness from the higher elevated full “Happiness Tank” to the lower level empty miserable person that has caused the attachment. If the attachment is allowed to exist, soon the higher elevated individual will be drained of their happiness fuel and they will become empty, miserable, and will find themselves on the same level as the lower level “Emotional Siphoner.” Soon both will start feeding off of each other in search for any happiness, because the lower level “Emotional Siphoner” never becomes full because their “Happiness Tank” has a hole in it and the fuel leaks out faster than it can be pumped in. Shortly after being dragged down to the same level, the higher elevated individual develops the same hole and then they become an “Emotional Siphoner.”

Remember misery loves company and it hates happiness. It is never satisfied until it siphons off the happiness it sees and drags everyone down to its level. Now that you know what one is, have you ever met an “Emotional Siphoner?” Are you allowing them to siphon off of you? If so, do you know how to get rid of them? Robert Tew said it best “Don't let negative and toxic people rent space in your head. Raise the rent and kick them out!” I know it is easier said than done, but that is why this is a daily blog and not a monthly blog. We all have “Emotional Siphoner” in our life and they all try to siphon off of us. The knowledge learned here isn’t going to stop them from trying to attach themselves to you, but it will help you know when they do. It will also help you spot them out when they lock their sites on you.  It’s like “Spidey sense.”

Remember:

Sunday=1,440 minutes

Monday=1,440 minutes

Tuesday=1,440 minutes

Wednesday=1,440 minutes

Thursday=1,440 minutes

Friday=1,440 minutes

Saturday=1,440 minutes