Ghosts

I really like the idea of ghosts.  My favorite ride at Disneyland is totally The Haunted Mansion and I am obsessed with Paranormal State.  Aside from the spooky fun of it all the idea that we imprint ourselves permanently on our surroundings, for good or for bad, is a powerful thought to me.  Surely, my vanity adores that power as well :)

Even if there aren't literally ghosts: apparitions shimmering in the dark at the foot of your bed, old civil war generals with guns and whiskey bottles, little girls singing nursery rhymes and skipping rope in your hallway, we do leave an impression.  On other people at least.  Not just the way someone thinks of you, but their impulse in response to the thought of you or the sound of your name.  What they smell, and recall.  What happens to their heart rate.

You still reside in your childhood room as a product of how you treated the space.  Drawings hidden in the walls of a closet, a hole in the wall, all your sports medals neatly hung on a shelf....a product of who you simply are, you left your impression.  The mere way the room was arranged will affect others coming into that space.

Your physical movements and actions are an obvious way to affect space, because you can see the result.  If you punch a wall and it leaves a hole, you see the hole, you remember how it happened, others see it and wonder.

We all know how our bodies change when we are experiencing emotions internally. We send out little brains waves, we heat up, we cry, adrenaline courses through us, we sweat, we release all sorts of natural chemicals.  This must affect our space also.  I am the last person to ask about the science of it, but I just wonder.

We leave our ghosts everywhere just by being ourselves.  Wouldn't it be nice if the strongest impressions left were positive?  If people thought of you and smiled?  Better yet: to affect the negative ghosts, accept them for what they are, let them go, move on, and let them absorb some of your positivity.