Ash Wednesday

[afuna]

Today is Ash Wednesday. Hard to miss all the people coming at me with gritty gray crosses on their foreheads.

I used to think that the ash was made from cremated dead people, but I still didn't mind when they made us line up once a year in school and get it smudged onto our foreheads. However, I tried to keep it on my forehead as long as possible (out of respect?), and I couldn't bring myself to touch it because, ew, dead people remains.

But on my forehead was fine.

Comments

[danii06.livejournal.com]

I know how you feel. That's what I originally thought too! And with several crematoriums just 10 minutes away from where I studied, it really wasn't a far-fetched speculation.

Though unlike you, I was secretly glad I always got the light crosses, the ones that where the ash is easily blown away. I never tried to make it last, though I made no conscious effort to remove them. I also thought that the spirit of whoever the ash belongs to would loiter around so and suffice it to say, it gave me the creeps. >.

[afuna]

I was secretly glad when the ash was blown away as well. I just didn't dare do anything to speed up the process *g*

(Just like I didn't dare actually bite the communion host)

[iruka11.livejournal.com]

lol i just thought your icon was really amusing XD