Graveyard Therapy

[LoneKiller]

I wasn't sure about divulging this about myself, because I don't want to sound creepy. lol It's something that helps me greatly to cope with life's ups and downs, and if it only helps just one member than I'm happy.

Try walking through a graveyard twice a week. It gives you motivation, and gives you a better appreciation of life, you get exercise, and it's tremendously quiet allowing you to really think about things. Each tombstone represents a person or a family's suffering after losing the one buried under it.

I thought that it was silly at 1st, but man I'm glad I stuck with it.

 

[EveWasFramed]

Well, maybe Im creepy too. When I went to the UK last year, I walked through several graveyards. I wasnt freaked out, but rather found a bit of peace, reading the headstones and what loved ones had engraved for the ones who'd passed. It made me wonder who they were and what kind of lives they had lead.

 

[LoneKiller]

Well, maybe Im creepy too. When I went to the UK last year, I walked through several graveyards. I wasnt freaked out, but rather found a bit of peace, reading the headstones and what loved ones had engraved for the ones who'd passed. It made me wonder who they were and what kind of lives they had lead.

Yep! It's sounds depressing, a graveyard, but I find solace there when I go.

 

[SophiaGrace]

I saw the above ground crypts in new orleans before katrina hit. That was interesting...

 

[annik]

While I don't think its creepy I also think its not quite right. I once saw a sign in a local churchyard that said it wasn't a footpath but consecrated ground. You have to be respectful and I can think of nicer places for a walk and fresh air. I'm not really sure how graves can give motivation either.

I say this as someone who is deeply unreligious too.

 

[SophiaGrace]

They always creeped me out. My grandmother would never let me walk directly on the graves.

 

[Ak5]

I tell myself:

"Do your best to be successful and have fun. Life is only one."

Thinking about it gives me both motivation and creeps. I should be having fun right now, but I'm not. Am I going to stay like this forever and die an old person having wasted my entire youth in loneliness?

 

[LoneKiller]

While I don't think its creepy I also think its not quite right. I once saw a sign in a local churchyard that said it wasn't a footpath but consecrated ground. You have to be respectful and I can think of nicer places for a walk and fresh air. I'm not really sure how graves can give motivation either.

I say this as someone who is deeply unreligious too.

It motivates you to get busy living, or get busy dying.

 

[paulo]

i used to live across from one.
i find them to be verry peacefull.
all those people not having to deal with anything anymore.
not bothering anyone not making problems or anything.
just resting all quiet.

doesnt really motivate me though.
just makes me see how much (useless) difficultys people and just living creates.

 

[Sci-Fi]

Maybe on Halloween for a spook or two. Honestly it is creepy to me but not unheard of that people do that. It's just someplace I don't like to go. I drive by a large cemetery every weekend, and for several years each time I drove by I would hold my breath. Superstitious? Me? No, but the tail kind of creeped me out.

 

[nerdygirl]

Maybe on Halloween for a spook or two. Honestly it is creepy to me but not unheard of that people do that. It's just someplace I don't like to go. I drive by a large cemetery every weekend, and for several years each time I drove by I would hold my breath. Superstitious? Me? No, but the tail kind of creeped me out.

I keep rereading this. The tail kind of creeped you out?

 

[Sci-Fi]

Yeah haven't you heard of the myth? You are supposed to hold your breath when you drive by them, if you don't and breath in any wandering spirit could take residence in your body.

 

[Ak5]

I have a relative who loves graveyards. Hey, there is someone who isn't afraid of death!

 

[annik]

While I don't think its creepy I also think its not quite right. I once saw a sign in a local churchyard that said it wasn't a footpath but consecrated ground. You have to be respectful and I can think of nicer places for a walk and fresh air. I'm not really sure how graves can give motivation either.

I say this as someone who is deeply unreligious too.

It motivates you to get busy living, or get busy dying.

I can't say that's what I think or get out of them.

 

[lonelyfairy]

I think that graveyards are very peaceful places. :>

 

[Bread]

No real graveyards in these parts. Bus takes me by one each day, and I do tend to indulge in a few thoughts on mortality. Those stones are pretty much the only thing that tells the world that someone lived and died. And in most cases, they are forgotten by time anyway, and the graves are unattended.

I don't like graveyards, for a variety of reasons.

 

[Badjedidude]

I've slept in a graveyard before. It's not scary at all. Kinda boring.

I was on a long hike and the graveyard was the prescribed meeting place where I would be picked up. I like to be dropped off miles and miles from my target destination... and this time I happened to make better progress than I thought. So I got to the graveyard several hours early. It was dark. I settled in against a mausoleum for shelter and slept the hours away until my ride showed up.

I kinda wish I'd seen a ghost or something interesting.

 

[LoneKiller]

While I don't think its creepy I also think its not quite right. I once saw a sign in a local churchyard that said it wasn't a footpath but consecrated ground. You have to be respectful and I can think of nicer places for a walk and fresh air. I'm not really sure how graves can give motivation either.

I say this as someone who is deeply unreligious too.

It motivates you to get busy living, or get busy dying.

I can't say that's what I think or get out of them.

Well, it's not for everybody.

 

[DreamerDeceiver]

I can see how the peace and quiet would be nice. Perhaps someone who had a low value on their life and spent enough time in a graveyard would be encouraged to enjoy life and live it to the fullest while its there.