Nostalgic moments

When I was younger, I thought April Fool lasted throughout the month, so April was always fun for my playmates and me. We would throw jokes at each other and shout, “April fools.” We were really the fools. April Fool on April 27th? Gawd!

When I was younger, someone (I can’t remember whom) once told me that Super-stories were real, and I spent my days questioning how those people knew that their stories were worth watching, how they bring the cameraman if they didn’t plan it? Why is the woman crying too much? How can they go back in time (flashback)?

Someone should have told me that was editing, but I never asked. Until I saw an episode where the actors were in the land of the dead, discussing and narrating their life experiences. Yes, you guessed right- my head almost exploded. How can the cameraman move from the land of living to the land of death? I thought death was permanent; wasn’t that what I was told? Another puzzle I didn’t bother to ask anyone to clarify; I just kept thinking and thinking, trying to put the piece together.

 Sadly, I also believed that movies are real, but it’s also funny that no matter how much reality I attached to it, it never made me cry; I just feel heartbroken and angry. That’s not the point; I watched every movie with empathy, laughing when I could, praying that this would happen to me and that that wouldn’t happen to me. Then, I watched some characters die, “whyyyyyyyy?” Almost everyone around me was crying at how cruel life is, and I was just staring, lost in thoughts. I watched them bury the character and cover the grave with sand. I watched the dead person appear and disappear, now being tagged a ghost, and I couldn’t stop the thoughts in my head. I had asked my elder siblings, “Can you see a spirit?”

“It depends, but not easily. Don’t you see he can’t see her?”

Then how could the cameraman see her? I almost asked, but I’m not much of a talker, and I didn't want to miss any point in the movie. When the movie ended, we waited for the next one, and then, boommmmm, the woman who had died in the other movie casually walked in with a glass of water. How on God’s Earth is this possible?

How can the dead come back to life unscathed? Nothing has ever made me this excited. When the laughter of my siblings greeted my shocked face, I guess I was a fool again.