Being Superstitious

Are you superstitious?

Our religion and culture emphasize on some superstition but somethings we develop on our own.😊

I need my right foot to land when I am climbing up or down the stairs.

I will not finish my entire coffee, there will be a little left over in a cup.

I have strong memory associated with smell, I will not buy certain soap brand since I have associated with bad luck😄.

The list goes on and on. What is that cause us to hold on to these superstition. It is just PTSD from the past experience or the good that happened with our past experiences and it always has an impact on our brain.

We are educated yet we continue we say, but the brain is an organ with it’s own anatomy we still have not mastered. Until that time we control them we will all be having our own rituals and superstitious acts to calm others down 😊.

By the way my husband gets really irritated when I do not finish off my coffee, sometimes he forces me yet I have not yielded to it. I still do not know why I do not finish. Then my Mom said my grandfather wouldn’t finish his cup 😃🤷‍♀️!

13 responses to “Being Superstitious”

  1. Ha ha Uma, that is funny about the coffee in your cup, for me, I need to do the same things everyday and eat the same breakfast and lunch everyday.

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  2. I’ve heard of the not-finishing-a-drink before. I think you make a good point – that often superstitions are reactions to bad experiences. Not necessarily supernatural.

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    1. Maybe it is a defense mechanism of our brain that creates these rituals and superstitious beliefs.

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  3. Walter Schelsky Avatar
    Walter Schelsky

    I will not go to cash register 13, even if it is the only one open. I will abandon my cart first. I also have this need to only go in and out the right side of doors. I can control that if I am with someone, but if I am alone, I can sometimes stare at the right side door for several minutes, if it is locked.

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  4. Walter Schelsky Avatar
    Walter Schelsky

    I will not go to cash register 13, even if it is the only one open. I will abandon my cart first. When I am cutting vegetables, I will not make 12 cuts, that leaves 13 pieces, and I will not make 13 cuts. I also have this need to only go in and out the right side of doors. I can control that if I am with someone, but if I am alone, I can sometimes stare at the right side door for several minutes, if it is locked. That is probable OCD and not superstition.

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    1. Ocd, rituals, superstitious beliefs all go in circles 😀.

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  5. It’s the right foot landing that got me 🤣.

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    1. If I don’t I would not feel balanced 😂😂.

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      1. Oh! that makes sense.

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  6. The right foot landing first issue is something that I also am guilty of following 😂

    Also my dad never finishes his tea / coffee. I always figured it was because he hates the sediment that tends to settle even after filtration, or that he feels it would have come down to the room temperature by the time he reaches the bottom of it. Your post however has given me a different perspective today. I will make sure to ask him today if it has any angle of bad experience in the past or, is on some level a superstition?

    Thank you for sharing this post 🤩

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    1. Ha ha! The sediment maybe an issue 😀! Glad I am not the only one to have all these issues!

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