Nature of the beast

It is an ongoing journey Lucifer, discovering what you believe you are, what you would like to be perceived as, what you actually are. Then there are often the relevations that not all are the same thing, or even close. It has happened to me a couple of times in my professional life, the once that hurt a lot, and several times in my personal. Fortunately less public for often that is more hurtful if not more embarassing.

Still, it is sometimes useful to find a word in definition. Ideas can be clarified, sometimes motives revealed. Such is the case with this word. How true is this of my existance?

parasite

1. Biology. An organism that grows, feeds, and is sheltered on or in a different organism while contributing nothing to the survival of its host. An organism that lives on or in an organism of another species, known as the host, from the body of which it obtains nutriment.
2. a person who receives support, advantage, or the like, from another or others without giving any useful or proper return, as one who lives on the hospitality of others.