Its true. We’re all ‘Life Suckers’ at different points and times in our lives.
Maybe you are unsure whether or not you fit into the category of professional ‘L i f e S u c k e r’. Follow this guide; and you’ll be well on your way to sucking the life from your relationships.
30 Steps to Becoming a Professional ‘L i f e S u c k e r’
{1.} Be all things to all people; even if it means living life as a two-face.
{2.} Be overly dramatic, make mountains out of mole hills. Create a new crisis as often as needed. Make it a good one!
{3.} Be overly critical; find fault in everyone and every thing that comes in your path.
{4.} Be a chronic complainer; complain about everything! E.g. {Husband, House, Job, People, Money, Weather etc.}
{5.} Be argumentative; even if it’s petty or insignificant or inconsequential – never agree to disagree, stand your guard. Remember, you’re always right! Make sure others know that. Stand strong!
{6.} Relentlessly demand and persist; and never take no, for an answer!
{7.} Speak negatively about everything and everyone. Always look at life with the glass half empty. Besides if we’re unhappy – why should anyone else be?
{8.} Never accept responsibility for your actions or your words; blame everyone but yourself.
{11.} Display a constant array of theatrical shows; let yourself be noticed. Social media is a great way to share and display these great masterpieces of art.
{12.} Be excessively needy; look to people for your strength.
{13.} Demand of others time and energy.
{14.} Be a user; use people until you can’t use them anymore, after that – find someone new!
{15.} Be a taker; don’t worry about giving back. You deserve it!
{16.} Manipulate. Manipulate. You can take advantage this way.
{17.} Be a bottomless emotional pit; life is hard – share every emotion possible! Free yourself on others.
{18.} Take complete control of your life. Its yours anyway.
{19.} Guilt trip the life out of people. If they couldn’t do something or be there for you at the time you needed them most. Give it to them. Let ’em have it good.
{20.} Tear people down. Its easier!
{21.} Slander the life out of others right behind their back. They’ll never know.
{22.} Unmotivate yourself. Don’t get off the couch or out of bed. Don’t worry about setting goals and aiming for them.
{23.} Make excessive excuses. Everything needs a good excuse. E.g. Lack of Sleep, Work, Church, Friends, Kids, Commitments etc.
{24.} Be a victim player; its them not you.
{25.} Make sure to praise your efforts publicly.
{26.} Live in anger and bitterness; never drop your guard to forgive. You’ll lose ground.
{27.} Let your circumstances control your attitude.
{28.} Let people bail you out of your mistakes. After all they probably helped you get their anyway!
{29.} Feel insecure, inadequate or incapable of carrying your life duties. Sulking is good for keeping up your attitude on life. Remember, life just stinks!
{30.} Compare your life with others. Let jealousy rule over your life. Don’t look for the “good” in your life. Its not that great anyway.
Let’s face it, no one really likes to be around a ‘Life Sucker.’
Search me, O God, and know my heart; Try me, and know my anxieties; And see if there is any wicked way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting. Psalm 139:23-24
Stand fast therefore in the liberty by which Christ has made us free, and do not be entangled again with a yoke of bondage. Galatians 5:1
of grace has been so lavished on you. Live His example and give grace that was given so freely to you. Remember that God allows blessings to come — even thru the terrible messy relationships.
See, I have set before you today life and good, death and evil, in that I command you today to love the LORD your God, to walk in His ways, and keep His commandments, His statues, and His judgements, that you may live and multiply; and the LORD your God will bless you in the land which you go to possess. Deuteronomy 30:15-16
This post is part of a mini series. Read part two:
30 Steps to Becoming a ‘L i f e G i v e r’
This post is linked up at: Raising Homemakers, Walking Redeemed & Deep Roots at Home
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