Ghost

Disregarding our popular belief, it is an absolute fact that everyone on earth is haunted by ghosts.

Alright, now I have a few lines to explain that huge overstatement. I am pretty sure that when you are wandering in the street window-shopping (trying to relate to the XMAS experience) or alternatively in a large crowd such as concert, queuing for Avatar or in line for the toilets in disco, DO NOT TELL ME that you never had the impression of seeing someone special in your peripheral vision. That special someone being the ghost of THE ex-gf/bf. That one experience that went beyond the traditional bound of gf/bf nowadays. That experience that -in a word- transformed you, and that you will have regrets your entire life. And the ghost of that person can just appear everywhere.

Everyone (being in couple or not at the present time) has one like that. But let's make no mistake,this kind of ghosts have several "levels". Let's dive into that:

LEVEL1: 0-6 months post final break up.

You just broke up with that formidable someone (or got dumped alternatively). Like all of us, you are digging your own grave with anger attitude, hate-the-world behavior and depending and your weight, over-eating or becoming anemic (I obviously overlook the alcohol problem). But all of that is not the point. Ghosts during that period are very seldom. They do not materialize. They are elsewhere doing something more ghostly than haunting you. If you see that ghost, there is a good chance it is actually not a ghost, but the the flesh and bone person. (in that case, my personal advice, RUN).

LEVEL 2: 6-12 months post final break up.

Whatever the ghost was doing previoulsy, it is now fully focus on one thing. You. The initial trauma is now gone. You just have a slight permanent bleeding in your heart, which I suspect attract the ghosts. So you see them everywhere. Avatar, Starbuck, concert, planes, car crossing, runners, school, work, stalking you, background of your photos, friends of friends, train, and god knows where. They are just everywhere. So my personal advice is that you should not believe in ghost just now.

LEVEL3: post year final break up.

Ghosts start to behave like real ghosts, i.e, you don't know when they will appear, why they appear, they disappear as soon as you try to chase them, and their frequency is usually from once per 15 days to once per month. But it feels so damn real. This is usually when you start realizing that you shall move on. One way (finally give up on lost hope) or another (starting to think o getting a new GF/BF).

so ghostly enough for You ?