My Thoughts Feelings and Experiences with Cemeteries

My Thoughts Feelings and Experiences with Cemeteries
I have never really given much thought to how I really feel about cemeteries. I guess between the ghost stories, the death, and the sadness that surrounds them I don’t really have any good things to say about them. I have only known them as a scary, eerie, or sad place. I would even venture to say that I would probably be a little scared to go to one in the middle of the night just because of the character that a cemetery holds. I am excited to be able to get a new perspective on cemeteries and I am glad to be able to have this opportunity at such a well known cemetery.
The emotion that stands out from the rest I think would be sadness. I have had a lot of people close to me die in the past few years and can almost not stand even walking into one. Also, just the thought of walking on ground where underneath you are hundreds of dead bodies….ewwww….and what the bugs are doing to them. I am excited about this class but at the same time I hope it really changes how I view cemeteries. Maybe I won’t look at them in such a negative light after I learn a little more about the details and the heart of this one cemetery.
I know that there is a lot of thought that goes into picking each gravestone and each inscription on them. There is so much history in a cemetery. Each six foot deep grave holds a different story yet all the people ended up in the same piece of land. The inscriptions are very interesting to read. Each inscription is like a small window into the person’s life that lies underneath your feet. It is like for just one second you feel like you have just met that person.
Maybe my feelings about cemeteries are a bit bizarre, but I can’t help it to feel the way I do. I see the reality in what they really are..a place to put the dead and that really creeps me out. I want to walk away from this class looking at Spring Grove as a place for those of us who pass to rest in peace. Spring Grove is a beautiful place and I don’t want my way of thinking to cause me to miss out on a true work of art.