CRS
Chandler, Arizona, United States

There's an old saying. If you don't want someone to join a crowd, you ask them, "If everyone were jumping off of a cliff, would you?" Well, I have. So my answer would be "Yes". True story.
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Adults Who Believe in Ghosts

Thursday, March 17, 2011

this entry brought to you by the white stripes, "the union forever"


My daughter's friend came over the other morning and, while Celest was getting ready for school, told me that she'd gone over to her uncles house over the weekend, "And I saw a ghost!"

"There's no such thing as ghosts, silly," I told her.

"I did! I saw a ghost! It was at the edge of my bed!"

"Your mind was probably just playing tricks on you. There wasn't a ghost because ghosts aren't real."

Now, so far, this all seems reasonable, right? I mean, this is what adults are supposed to say to kids, right? That there's no such thing as ghosts, and that their minds were running away from them? This wasn't like telling a kid that there was no Santa, and fucking up their parents' whole Christmas tradition. There's no such thing as ghosts and we all know that, right?

"My uncle even saw it!" she said. "He said it was sitting on the end of my bed as well!"

Well shit. Now I felt like a bad person for negating whatever this adult's way of teaching his niece. I mean, this could be the weird uncle that everybody knows is a little loopy in the head and yes, he believes in ghosts and some weird invisible man in the sky who sends you to hell if he catches you masturbating, but just humor him when you're there. Maybe this uncle is like this and they just forgot to debrief her after her stay over the weekend and see what idiotic thoughts he put in her head to settle things.

Or maybe the whole family thinks this. Once she had brought up that some adult confirmed it for her it really stuck a wrench in my otherwise innocent reassurance that there was no such thing as ghosts.

I understand how grown adults can believe in ghosts, I really do. What I don't understand is how that person can exist on the planet without instantly having all of their money taken away from them.
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with love from CRS @ 9:29 AM 

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