Ghosts and People

Ever thought about what happiness really is? Ever thought about how blunt as an eraser your life is or perhaps how pointy as the tip of a compass? Ever thought about the question “Why me?” Has anything exciting ever happened to you for which you can say, “Yes! This is the moment for which I have been waiting for so long.” If yes you might be lucky, but if the answer is no then you are among the majority of the people who have always felt as the biggest loser in their whole life. Now let us understand it a little deeper. What brings you to ‘think’? What really makes you the person you haven’t been or had given up on being? Why are you just a mediocre person in your life? A plethora of these questions are actually unanswered and you start being the way where you are not yourself anymore. You want to tell the world how you feel, how do you like your tea made, which kind of jacket suits you the most, what does maa always tell you for good luck before you go out for an exam. You are all of this. You have this ocean of a personality to share with someone, but why the hesitation? Being introverted is fine, but being a lonely person is not what you should expect from yourself. 

Some say it’s because of the zodiac sign. The Pisces are said to be more of an emotional personality while Leos are said to be confident. The zodiac brings its traits they say. Why is the zodiac important? Maybe it is, maybe it isn’t. The perception of conceiving someone’s personality has changed drastically over the time. The rich brat guy who smokes pot and has a big appealing personality is preferably referred as a cool dude. There are some other people too, who are hardly ever noticed. Generally, people are never interested in them. They are ghosts. So let’s talk about them here.

Let’s start by asking a question. “Are you scared of ghosts?” Yes? So here it is. What if the ghosts are never scary but instead want to be friends with you? Maybe they want to share how they felt while they left the world a little early. Maybe tell you what it is like being dead. So there is a teeny-tiny possibility that ghosts might be friendly too. Let’s grow this possibility even further. These people are similar to the ghosts who never really harm you but are always present around. Basically they are the less scary ones, one who would ensure that they exist yet their existence hardly matters to the people who feel their presence. 

What about the quite guy in your class? Is he a ghost? He maybe. So when did you know he was a ghost? Maybe you have always known that because he has been dead for long. Not as dead as in the movie Zombieland, but having a glance at his mental state we see that his mental happiness is dead. Why? Because no one heard his friendly talk. No one had listened to the stories he had. No one knew how well he could sketch, how well he could whistle the bird songs, how he always liked Led Zeppelin and has his poster on his bedroom, how good he could multiply numbers in his head, how he always had the crush on this girl with whom he has been taking classes for almost an year, how his heart blasted in emotional rainbow saga when he saw her flip her hair. A handful of stories buried deep inside. A ghost tale one would have never heard of. 

The reality is often confusing and so is this brain. The most powerful thing on this planet and yet the most disturbed and stressed. We are those ghosts. You and I have somewhere at some point in our lives have been in deep state of this ghost phenomenon. There are times when people cannot get themselves out of this ghost paranoia. This is where we ghost people have to get back in the saddle. Being a ghost for a fellow ghost we might get a better ghost community where there are tales to pass on to the coming generations. A ghost in need is a friend indeed. Maybe you got to the bottom of abyss just now.