People grow on you; they also get under your skin. If you
dont know what has come over you lately and you are
not yourself any more, you had better read on.
       People attach themselves to you by the way you react to
them. Slowly but surely, they drain the life out of you. There
exists a class of people who cannot exist unless you die to
them. Strangely enough, the victim experiences those reac-
tions to the temptation as life for, not from, him. For this rea-
son, they will not give up what appear to them as only human
feelings. Surely you have experienced the feeling of being
drained by seemingly nice, but oppressively demanding, peo-
ple. For some strange reason, your body is unable to say no;
and you are unable to deny them any request. Their sickly love
fascinates you, and you give your all. If it is true that people
do live on one another, what is the reason for this? Doesn’t
everyone have his own life source? The answer is no; we do
not!
       Let us assume there was a time in you life when you knew
what was right: You were fair and honest, and, as longas you
held fast to what was highly principled and honorable,

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