The other day i logged on to GTalk as usual and found an interesting status message of one of the friends - whom i'll refer to as "Prince". It read - "I saw a ghost for the first time in my life". I was as surprised and intrigued to read this line as he must have been when he saw this supposed(or real who knows !!) ghost.
I got damn curious and called him up that very moment.He told me that he saw somebody fast asleep besides him when he woke up at 5 o'clock in the morning (5:13 to be precise). Thinking that it was his brother , Prince went back to sleep. When he woke up in the morning , he found himself all alone in the flat.It was when he called up his brother that he discovered that his brother had left at 3:15 in the morning itself !!!!!!!!!!
Thus he concluded that it could only have been a ghost that was keeping him company since his brother's departure as he lives alone in his flat. He also managed to come up with a description of the "ghost" saying it was very dark colored , had a big round tummy and was asleep at the time he looked at it. He has been a little ill ever since !!!
Hearing this i just did not know how to react - my brain was saying it could not have been a ghost but then he had seen it and one had to believe his narration.I would have loved to convince him that there was no ghost but i did not try hard since everybody has their own perception of the Supernatural. What leads people to believe in ghosts and witches and souls ?? Maybe they are just too fearful in some situations for e.g when somebody is alone in the dark you are never quite sure of your surroundings or what's happening around you. This possibly leads to a vulnerability of mind and the fear converts itself to an ugly supernatural form in front of your eyes. Add to that the numerous "horror" stories you have heard from almost all quarters which add to one's belief of such ghosts. Even every little sound heard at such times feels like a ghost whisper.
I am a firm believer in Science and there's nothin there that proves the existence of any such thing. There can always be a proper explaination of any "ghostly" activity if one just dares to investigate what the cause of the activity is. In the case of Prince, i feel that firstly he was still half asleep when he got up at 5:13 and secondly he was expecting to see a human figure (and by that i mean his brother) besides him that time. The combination of these two things made his eyes believe there was some human there at that time, which he could not explain when he was completely awake and so he conveniently labeled the whole incident as a Ghost sighting. What cannot be explained is by no way "Supernatural" but it's just something that has not been investigated or discovered as yet by the great scientists of this world. It's a challenge for human intelligence to raise the bar to unearth the yet-unexplained secrets. One should not fear the Supernatural but just try and convert it to "natural" :)
The point should be re-stressed that it's fear most of the times as also the insufficient knowledge about an incident that is the creator of horror creatures. Somehow in the ancient times when science was at it's infancy or even virtually non-existent, people just could not explain what they perceived as unnatural happenings and they have created these ever-lasting myths like witches and ghosts. Even solar and lunar eclipses were termed as acts of the demon but see how they have been proven to be something very natural occurence far far away from any "Evil act".
Ghosts are just mental images in the minds of a vulnerable and frightened being. All such unreal and unnecesary ideas can be abolished only through proper education mainly in the rural areas and proper enlightenment.
Folks , I can't see the keyboard ......the lights have gone out suddenly and it's dark...and , and OH NO there's a white human figure out here hanging from the ceiling !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! See ya if i am alive tommorow.
