Werewolf

My friends and family have gone mad for mythical creatures of our imagination. Vampires and zombies are America's favorite gruesome nightmarish villain that somewhere deep within our shadow selves we know we are those vile things. I've never liked either one of those ghouls of darkness. I hate the idea of sucking blood from a neck or being undead and eating brains. It's all so vulgar. I keep wondering what makes those people long to watch and read about those creatures. What was inside them that they craved to know more and hear more. I thought that perhaps they were secretly evil or mentally disturbed. I couldn't understand it. I still don't. Why? Well, because I connect with a different creature; a werewolf. 

This got me thinking. What makes me attracted to one and repulsed by the others? I have been giving this some thought. Vampires consciously choose to take life. They relish in taking it and also in turning a human into one of them, the undead blood sucker with immortality. Zombies are unconscious autopilot killers. They are going through the motions and not knowing what they are doing because they are more that undead they are actually just animated death. Werewolfs know they are going to change once a month, think menstrual cycle. Many choose to lock themselves away to keep from harming others during this time. They are vicious and mean during the change, yes, but they turn back into normal loving and sometimes meek humans. Werewolves tend to be represented as the quiet human, that might even be skittish, and turn into a massive beast that fears nothing. Even if the werewolf is hurt they revert back to that scared howling animal I pain. They fierceness is temporary and  just a facade.  They change is out of their control and if they could stop it they would stop it. They are conscious living beings that transform unwillingly. 

This is why I cannot relate to people that worship, love, watch, enjoy, and are fascinated with vampires and zombies. I wonder what is in their psyche to enjoy that? Do I enjoy werewolf movies? No, I cannot watch them. I feel sad watching this human morph uncontrollably. I said I can relate, not enjoy. I purely empathize.