This is the Chinese 7th month in the lunar calendar. Its the time of year when, according to Chinese mythology and beliefs, the gates of Hell are opened and the ghosts are allowed to roam freely through the human world. Those who believe will offer prayers and food to feed the hungry ghosts who have no one to pray for them and feed them, so they don’t get disturbed by these hungry ghosts.
How appropriate then that my personal ghost decides to take the opportunity to rake up a past that is not only forgotten but which I don’t care to rake up. I have not seen this ghost for more than 6 months now, and this ghost is hungry and desperate for information.
Am I fatter? Am I thinner? Am I more beautiful than ever? *preen*
Am I richer? Am I poorer? Am I a success? Am I a failure?
Am I Christian? Am I Buddhist? Am I Muslim?
Its strange to have someone so obsessed about you. I feel rather like my namesake, Paris Hilton. I feel like I should have a sleazy sex video somewhere on the internet and be chased by papparazzi everywhere I go. At the same time, I feel like I should be worried that someone so inconsequential to me should want to take so much notice of me. I guess I watch too much Criminal Minds and CSI.
This ghost is hungry for information which it cannot get. It has resorted to prying information out of other people on the pretext of feeding them lunch. Does it think everyone’s a hungry ghost like it is? It tried to piss me off by asking this person to pass the message to me that his pet ghostling is getting more than what I did.
Am I awed by this attention? Am I repulsed? Am I angered? Do I care?!
No. I’m strangely removed from it all, and a little amused. I feel nothing where once I would have whipped out my ghostbusting machine and let out a roar of anger. Now, I just shake my head at the childishness of it all, and get on with my life. I can. I don’t need my private stalker ghost.
BOO!
Do not feed the ghosts
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Hahaha…some ghosts are just too free but just shout BOO and ghosties will all disappear!
Yeah you certainly don’t need it if you have so many blogs!
Ghosts don’t eat. Remember Casper the Ghost movie? The food goes right through.
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