People have in their minds
these very biased ideas about ghosts, always longing for revenge, to see their
loved ones one last time. After fifteen years in the psychic business,
professional medium Indira Patel harbored no such delusions. Sure some ghosts have
these overwhelming maddening passions, but most don’t. Most are about as full
of drive and vigor in death as they are in life, which is to say, not much.
They are, after all, the same people they were before they died, only without
the maddening drives of the limbic system. Even the passionate ones settled
down eventually once their true loves died, reuniting the star-crossed lovers,
or those they hated got some form of comeuppance.
No, Indira learned that after
decades long dead, what people missed the most were mundane things. The small
trivial pleasures that get taken for granted so often in life. The smell of a
pipe. The feeling of a good comfy couch. With humanity being so vast and
diverse a species, one could, with enough time, find someone who missed just
about anything. That realization prompted Indira to make the switch from
séances to full necromancy.
As far as she was concerned,
it was a win-win. Here were the deceased, longing to do things like wash
dishes, take out the trash, mow the lawn, and she got free housekeeping. Sure
the neighbors complained when the ghost fires rose from her lawn along with the
souls of the chore-loving dead, but they were just jealous. They didn’t have
ghosts to fetch their morning paper.
- Originally mailed to J.W. in Mississippi
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