This I Believe

I believe in the unknown. I believe there are still things we don’t know about the world around us. But it’s the things are unknown that make life interesting and cause the inspiration to exceed what is currently possible.

I’m always watching T.V. and an unavoidable subject always comes up. Whether its aliens or ancient magick of the past or peoples encounters with something they can’t explain. I was always fascinated by what I don’t know or can’t explain. Things I know for a fact happen but never seem to be able to prove. An example of this could be the many planes flying over certain areas of the globe and never coming back. Or disturbances in the magnetic field that cause a compass to spin uncontrollably. These occurrences are documented and unexplained. I have no idea how to explain these things. But they give that last bit of spark in the world that’s almost like one of those how does this happen feelings. It defies my normal viewpoint on the way things work on the planet. Which causes me to think how these events can happen and, is it possible that I could recreate these events if I tried.

My yearning for answers on this topic began when I was about ten, back then I used to live next to a funeral home. Strangely it never gave me an uncomfortable feeling, even knowing that there where dead bodies next door didn’t frighten me. I remember when I lived there shadows would dance around my room almost every night. My parents said I dreamed this but I remember so clearly seeing shadows dance across the floor going in and out of the wall that connected my house and the funeral home next door. Sometimes they would appear as shadows whose shapes are hard to make out and other times the shadows would be very clear to make out, clothed and look like they where dancing to an old fashioned waltz as they spun around. As far as I know it was the same two every night, one dressed up in a gold dress and the other in a suit and tie. I watched them until they went through the wall again and were gone. But that’s when I started wondering, what was that? Who where those people that seemed so alive but defied what was physically possible. “People don’t go through walls,” I thought to myself as I layed there pondering about the strange event that had occurred right before my eyes. I never figured out what happened there. My parents had moved not to long after I had told them about this. But this wasn’t the only time I had experienced something strange or unexplainable. Although tiny in comparison I used to do fundraisers, and go door to door selling dessert. Anyway one day I knocked on what I am told is the oldest mansion in town built in the eighteen hundreds. A very old woman wearing very dark clothes answered the door with a dog next to her. I blinked for just a second to get a catalogue out of my bag and she was gone. Later on in life I ended up meeting the daughter of the family that owned the house she told me a little about it and. I had explained to her my earlier experience there, she responded with that’s not possible you’re talking about my grandma followed by a leave me alone. Apparently her grandmother had died 2 years before I had gone there to sell desserts. Weird and I still don’t know how exactly I tried to sell desserts to a dead woman. This is way off topic but I still wonder if she had paid me would the money have dissapeared too?

Whether anyone believes me or not is none of my concern. In the end it may turn out that what I saw was just in my head, but I saw something strange that I can’t seem to explain. And those occurrences have slightly changed the way I view everyday life. But then again what is strange? Is it something to do with what society we live in? Or what the common things to see are? In my mind these aren’t strange occurrences rather normal things that happen everyday we just cant it explain yet. I believe everybody should experience something that starts to make them wonder about the world. The one we live in is boring right now everything is in stone. Where one already knows the boundaries of reality. Life should be fun and unknown, it should inspire us to move further than what is known as possible and this is what I believe.