Superstition
A Chinese fortune cookie, “You will win success in whatever calling you adopt.” How timely this little message comes to me. I am not an overly superstitious person, but I choose to believe that this is a message from the heavens. There has just been so much going on my little world these past few months, and the ‘situation’ is still evolving. It’s fascinatingly fluid, and I’m ready to jump at a moment’s notice.
On the subject of superstition, I confess that my mother had a strong influence on my belief. Believing that funerals were somehow mystical and that it had negative energy, I was never allowed to go to one. “Never bring a baby or young children to funerals as evil spirits can irritate them,” those are my mother’s teachings. To this day, I’ve only attended one, my mother’s funeral.
We had other super superstitions like; it’s bad luck to shower on the first of the year. Why? Because you are washing away good luck, good fortune, and good spirit. I don’t really understand this, but imagine a whole culture where the majority does not take a shower for a particular day.
Lastly, whenever you bite your tongue, or was it hiccup? Someone somewhere is reminding you of something you had forgotten about. My mother taught these wisdoms to me. I don’t know if I believe all the things that she said, if there were any nuggets of truths to any of them. These are the conversations, the bonds, the language, and culture of another of another time and place, when things were simpler.
Things are more complicated now in my life with more moving pieces and responsibilities. Sometimes I ached for easier. No scientific methods needed, a timely message from a fortune cookie lifted my spirit however momentarily, I was having a conversation with my mother.
