What do you see in the mirror?

No one ever has told me of the meaning of being a Therianthrope. Let alone, ever hearing of the word from the lips of another. I couldn't even tell you how I came about finding this word. All I can say is that I came across it by my interest in Vampires. No not Dracula or Edward Cullen inspired my research, but pure curiosity of uncommon beliefs. Vampirism is real and alive today. There are two types of Vampires; Blood drinking, and Psychic Draining. Either path leads to draining the "life force" out of a victim, whether it be human, animal, or nature in general. I had questioned why someone would choose such a path? Something felt unethical and wrong to me. Drinking someone else blood for life force (what I also believe to be another term for energy)? I have discovered that many Vampires will try to provoke anger, jealousy, frustration, and other strong emotions to make the victim's life force at it's peak, only to drain it psychically for their own needs.

After researching the true side of Vampirism, I started to wonder about their natural enemies; Werewolves. If Vampires were real in today's world, why not Werewolves? Obviously, (from my statement of Vampires) this would be no reenactment of Hollywood horror fiction. So I continued my research to come across Therianthropes, who possessed human bodies, but with human and animal mind. From my research I have come across statements claiming that you cannot physically transform into another animal, but have the mindset of one. I believe this to be false. 

Walk in my shoes for one moment here. My boyfriend thinks I have the body of a natural Goddess. He loves my curves, my eyes, my ass, and my boobs. I look in the mirror and see someone entirely different from his description of me. I need to loose weight, and I see too many flaws to count. Where is this natural Goddess? Not in the mirror in front of me. My point is, is that we have trained our minds over the course of our life to see the physical world around us in a certain way, just as we do in the mirror. 

When you can truly look in the mirror and see your were form (Whether it be wolf or another animal), the heart, and the mind of your animal, than you are truly Therianthrope.