Demian Parody Excersise

Parody

I awoke suddenly in a cold sweat. It was the strangest dream I had had in a while. I was surrounded by people hovering around me, but they were all covered in gold. They wore pointed gold hats and lots of jewelry and they were sitting cross-legged with their legs manipulated in such a way that I could not have imagined possible... at least not for me. Though I was encircled by quite a crowd of these unique gilded people, there was not a word spoken amongst them. It was completely silent except for a strange, droning 'Ommmm,' that pounded in my ears and seemed to resonate from somewhere deep within these strange beings. Each one of the gold people had their eyes closed except for one whose eyes popped open when I glanced at him, and looked straight at me. He mouthed just one word to me before I woke, startled... Buddha!

I shook my head to clear my thoughts of the dream. Sometimes dreams could be so strange and pointless. Honestly, I was just a middle-class, white, suburban, senior girl who went to church only on major holidays and who was looking for nothing more than to lose ten pounds, and gain a boyfriend. Buddha, Buddhists, and Buddhism?! Psh.... I had more important things to be dreaming of, like, maybe a good subject for my final term paper in English which I had put off until two days before the due date, or Heath Ledger. Dream date pick me! Late for school again, I raced out the door.

On my way through the city towards school I walked briskly but came to a sudden halt when I realized that we were supposed to be studying the Chinese New Year in French class that day (why? How should I know, but it was a good excuse for a party) and I had forgotten to grab the fortune cookies that I promised to bring. Strange that I had dreamed of Buddhism on Chinese New Year. I raced back home grabbed the package and ran back through the city to school. On my way there I passed the hot dog stand serving its first customer of the day. "Make me one with everything" a man asked. Ha! I wondered if he had dreamed of Buddhism that night too, what a request. When I finally got to school I took the stairs two at time and bumped into our school's Chinese exchange student, and tossed all of the fortune cookies up into the air. SIGH! As she