I'm always looking out my kitchen window sensing for an instant that someone is there on the approach to my front door. There's never anyone present except for the occasional amazon delivery driver. This sense of a presence though .... Well, I've never been one to believe in ghosts or spirits wandering among us, but I'm puzzled by this feeling that someone is out there. Someone with intentions that are unclear.
It reminds me of the time many years ago ..... I was working night shift in a scale house weighing trucks. A little shack 50-100 yards out from the main facility and other humans. At 3:00am it could sometimes feel like twenty miles from any life and solitary confinement. I had seen the lights of a truck approaching and go dark. As I turned to look out the window into the darkness, suddenly a face resembling Charles Manson appeared, peering in at me. Turned out to be a truck driver and the son of a local farmer but there was an anxious moment of fright there.
Also reminded as I type, of the time while driving my car late at night, I rounded a curve on a dark road on the outskirts of town and for an instant, thought I saw someone crossing the road on foot, just in front of me. Too late to stop or change direction, I braced for the impact ..... and there was none. I've since decided it was the dim streetlights and shadows from tree limbs and leaf's that were being blown about by the wind. Though the possibility of a ghost has always been present in my thoughts and memory of the moment.
So while I claim to not believe in such things, there's always a question or sliver of doubt.
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