I want to be a ghost hunter.
Of course, I want to be other things as well (an author, a UFO chaser, maybe a member of TAPS...which I suppose is technically a ghost hunter...moving on), but I really do have a drive to go hunt ghosts, and as far as I know there is no "season" to hunting ghosts, which means I can hunt them spring, summer, fall, and winter, and I intend to.
But whenever I tell people that, I get the same look and the same question: "Why?" That's usually followed by the blunt statement, "You know you don't get paid to do that, you know." Oftentimes, I get that statement from the same person, even after I've explained it to them a million times. So I've decided to explain to the Internet now; hopefully someone out there will get it.
For me, the "why" and the other statement go hand in hand. Often people ask me why I would want to be a ghost hunter when there's no money in it. My answer is just as blunt, and just as simple. I don't want to be a ghost hunter for the money. If I did, well, I'd be an idiot, because there's really no money in it anyway.
I want to be a ghost hunter because I want to help people. When I watch TV shows like My Ghost Story or Paranormal Witness and see terrified families with terrified kids and terrified dogs (because there are almost always dogs and cats on those shows), I get uncomfortable and, well, sad, because I plan on having a family some day and I don't want my kids growing up afraid to go to sleep because there's a shadow-man in their closet or an ols woman who comes out of the walls the second the lights go out. I want to help the people who think they're going crazy when things move on their own or they hear voices in their hallways or a face looks back from their mirror. I want to help everybody I can because I know that if it were me and my family suffering like that I would want someone to help and believe me.
I also want to help the ghosts themselves, if that's not too hard to believe (then again, you're reading my blog, though, so that's a sliding scale). As much as I hate watching kids get scared, I also hate hearing about kid ghosts trapped on Earth wandering around looking for their mothers, or people who for one reason or another can't cross over. I want to help those ghosts communicate at the same time that I want to help the families they're trying to communicate with. Of course, like people, there will always be ghosts who don't want to be helped, and I suppose Ii can't help that. But I can do all I can, and that's what I want to do.
Maybe there isn't any money in it. But it's not what you do, it's why you do it. I've heard that before, and you probably have, too. If I just go around trying to get ectoplasm samples for the money, for the fortune and glory, people aren't going to buy that--and my conscience isn't, either. But if I go around trying to help all the people and spirits that I can, people will buy that without really buying it, if you get what I'm saying.
No, I won't get rich off of it, so I guess it's good that's not what I'm doing it for, huh? I'm doing it to help. To make some sort of contact with spirits and some sort of difference for living people. I can still turn this into a career, even if it isn't a paying one. I just want to help. That's all.
And that's why I want to be a ghost hunter.
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