What is a ghost to me?
I think ghosts are the new form dead people attain, especially if they are yet to complete their assignment or mission here on earth. I associate ghosts with dead people who died untimely, and they still wish for a way to come back to life, so they hang on to life, and we see them as ghosts.
Are there ghosts in the world?
That would be a yes for me, because I had heard of so many examples of people seeing ghosts. There is a Yoruba folklore about Akudaya, and this term Akudaaya (often spelled Akudaya), refers to a "living wraith" or a spirit of a person who has died in one location but reappears in a faraway town to start a new life. This is another typical example of what I would refer to as a ghost because in most of these stories, the said person always disappears when close to the people or families from their previous life (an attribute of ghosts - to disappear).
What does a ghost feel like?
I believe ghosts are spirit beings, and we should get to feel them more than see them. You can either feel the presence of a ghost or see a physical manifestation sich as moving object or afterimages.
After the death of my dad, although I was not physically present when it happened but, it still had an impact on me. I realized alot of things, and I even did not come back home, but not out of fear of his ghost, rather out of fear of the responsibility he left behind for me.
Eventually, I had no choice but to come, and that was when I could tell you I had a total belief that ghosts do exist. I would just be alone, and I would see an afterimage of him passing by, I would feel his body scent, and even sometimes hear him calling from a distance. All these things I had experienced, and even till this day, some still happen. I had even wondered if it was just my imagination, but then when I asked other people, I got to see that it’s a similar experience.
In conclusion, I believe that ghosts do exist and only those who has experience death in one way or the other such as losing a loved one or friend would be able to relate more. Death is a mystery, and the more we keep trying to understand it, the more the mystery grows into things like ghosts.
Let me end this prompt by asking this too: “Are Ghosts spirits or Are Spirits Ghost?
This is my entry to week 53, episode 01 of the weekly featured contest for reading, and the topic to be discussed is Do You Believe In Ghosts?.
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