Can your items be cursed or possessed?
I love having things, tools, cars, motorcycles, cherished prized possessions, memorablia, clothes, shoes, decorations large and small. Things resemble the depth of human engineuity and experience. Imagine that you are here on this earth knowing what you know but not having any physical things that can help you get from one place to another, get you looking good to go out, help you make the foods that you like to eat. From covering yourself with clothes to having a roof over your head are all the rewards of having things. Most of which we take for granted nowadays. Things are apart of the very fabic of our existance, infact I doubt that we could have survived, evolved, or flourished without the use of all the physical things there are at our disposal. So realized that things are way more important than what we can even imagine.
Some beleive that things are connected with individuals and that their essense can be left with objects. People believe that things can be possessed with spirits and that things can have good or bad luck. I know that for myself having dealt with so many different personal belongs of others previously as an estate liquidator and realtor, I’ve never felt things being possessed or cursed. What I have experienced much of are people that associate ideas and sentiments that cause them to be truly affected by certain things that they own including myself. Keeping something that brings you no value can potentially detract value from your life. When you think about it there is no neutrality with things because every item requires space, time, and energy, to keep. Now think about things that people have a certain negative feeling towards and associate it with everything bad in their life, why didn’t they get rid of it immediately once they had that belief? I know that things have character, from how they’re made, how it was used, cherished & maintained, whoever that loved it can leave an imprint as well. I believe that things can have powers but powers that are limited to how we perceived them, and that perception can be ones’ truth. I know that things can have character because I have imprinted much character into many things, just as you have. The way I wear my shoes shows clear signs of how this object has develped character, from the way I walk and how I took care of them. A bicycle may lean a little to the left because of the way it has been ridden and crashed. A gown can lay to the right ever so slightly because of the way it was stretched by the previous owner. You see whatever power, luck, or characters to me are just imprints from people, especially from what one believes is caused by the thing or experienced with the thing. Things can be cursed, blessed, have good luck, be sentimental, or just be the inanimate objects that they are.
You see the power that things can have? The truth is, its our own power that is amazing. We create the world around us physically and perspectively in the sense that we associate, relate, and believe in what we do and it becomes so solidified that it becomes our reality. We intertwine our lives with things, we dedicate our lives to acquiring things, we give our loved ones things. We use things to love, hurt, and kill people. There is actually no subject that I can think about within our physical realm that doesn’t involve things or using things to do or accomplish anything. The only subjects that exclude things are that of our very own nature of philisophy, feelings, and emotions.
Now for the real spooky stuff, can things be cursed or possessed? To me is yes absolutely, however my beliefs are more obsure than the typical, the ones that would experience the curse or possession are the ones that believe in the curse or possession and the ones that are be overy infatuated with the thing. What we should be afraid with things are our own actions, reactions, and interactions with them. I love having things, I appreciate how things are made and what their functions are or just the beauty that I perceive them to be. Things that I like can attract me so much so that they distract me from doing what I have to do. Things can fill spaces that were meant for ourselves or other things or people that are usually more important to us. Things take away from our lives as much as they can bring. In the past I have been neurotic with things, to the point that I didn’t want to be wasteful even when things didn’t bring value to my life. If I didn’t check my perspective and prioritized what was important to me and reevaluated the life I wanted to accomplish and live, I could have manifested to becoming an epic hoarder. It was what the things meant to me that inhibited me, I was cursed by these items not because they were anything else other than what they were. I was cursed by my own infatuation with these “things” that it affected my world (what I was creating for myself and the reality that I was experiencing due to what I believed in), I had the space, equipment, man power, and a business that allowed me to acquire things for pennies on the dollar, so imagine that ability to hoard. My space had no limitation of age nor did it have limitations of variety, range so vast that I’d be surprised by the things that I’d rediscover myself.
Without a clear focus we roam, expend energy pointlessly, waste time as if there is no death, and we eventually realize that what we wanted to accomplish, we must start now and that to me is the spookiest thing, to lose ourselves and the direction that we want to go.
Fear is real, it is what we believe, it is what we don’t think we want, but it is just a feeling until we breathe and know that overcoming fears are just the stepping stones of our lives. We must refuse to let fear bind us in this fleeting life, for we are born into the certainty of death yet called to the struggle of truly living. If you were looking to get spooked, thats easy, only you can spook yourself! Boo!