topic Re: Superstitious in Among Friends

Superstitious

Malcontent — Tue, 15 Nov 2022 02:05:58 GMT

My granddaughter informed me earlier today that I am very superstitious.

I am not! (knocks on wood).

Anybody else here accused of being superstitious?

Re: Superstitious

Love my grandkids — Tue, 15 Nov 2022 02:27:18 GMT

@Malcontent Nope. Never have been. I think superstitions are just silly.

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Desert Lily — Tue, 15 Nov 2022 02:36:33 GMT

My grandparents were very superstitious. They threw salt over their shoulder if it spilled, believed a dead bird in the yard meant someone in the family was going to die, would never walk under a ladder, would never open an umbrella in the house, and thought the world was going to end when they were kids.

I think a little of it rubbed off on me. I try to use prime numbers when I can; I get a "feeling" that something will happen, etc. Maybe we call it something else these days: intuition, etc.

Re: Superstitious

phoenixbrd — Tue, 15 Nov 2022 03:23:39 GMT

Synchronicity and intuition...yes

Superstitious....no

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SurferWife — Tue, 15 Nov 2022 03:27:30 GMT

No, not in the least. Pure silliness.

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Kachina624 — Tue, 15 Nov 2022 03:28:47 GMT

No never. I'm too practical and down to earth. I'm the last person who'd be accused of being superstitious.

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CoffeeNut — Sat, 18 Apr 2026 18:16:02 GMT

Re: Superstitious

alliswell — Tue, 15 Nov 2022 04:48:36 GMT

@Malcontent wrote:
My granddaughter informed me earlier today that I am very superstitious.

I am not! (knocks on wood).

Anybody else here accused of being superstitious?

As Stevie Wonder wrote and sang: "When you believe in things that you don't understand, Then you suffer,

Superstition ain't the way, No, no, no."

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January121 — Tue, 15 Nov 2022 07:30:43 GMT

I am very superstitious & it doesn't bother me one bit!!!😁🐱🐱

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amyb — Tue, 15 Nov 2022 13:41:53 GMT

I am! And yet, not too seriously as I really believe in a higher power more than the silly superstitions. But it's just a funny cultural, family tradition to me. Lol...ingrained with old world Italian grandparents who passed them to my mom who passed them to me. The ones that come to mind...

*Don't put new shoes (the new shoe box) on the table!

*Don't walk under a ladder.

*If you drop various silverware utensals it means different things I can never keep straight...such as a spoon meant "company's coming", a fork meant you're going to have a fight with someone.

*Mom would always say~"Make a wish on the hay!".. is one of my favs that I do to this day...when you pass bales or stacks of hay at a farm or on a truck...Make a wish! (I usually follow it with "please God"...so there's that.)

*Don't open an umbrella under a roof!

*Yes I knock wood, or my head when wood's not around. (side note, never more than then do you realize how much things just aren't made like they used to be than when you try to find something that is actual wood near you!)

And I'm sure there's others...but those are the ones I still do or "don't do!" due to mom ingraining them.

Is it silly...of course! Like I said...just old familial traditions and habits I don't mind adhering to, and only take a little seriously...after all....I've broken my share of mirrors and didn't feel I had 7 years bad luck either.

oh yea...🐈‍⬛ 😉

Re: Superstitious

LindaSal — Tue, 15 Nov 2022 12:32:33 GMT

I guess I somewhat can be superstitious at times. Same as @amyb , my mom and aunts put it in our heads as kids. The biggest one that stuck with me that I still do to this day is always exit the same door you entered by. Don't ask me why, it's just one of those things.

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RNbynite — Tue, 15 Nov 2022 12:35:07 GMT

@Malcontent ....YES, and it seems once they (the superstitions) take hold they're very, very hard to shake. SMH 🤪

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Group 5 minus 1 — Tue, 15 Nov 2022 12:40:49 GMT

Daddy was very!! He was Irish and knew them all.

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jlkz — Tue, 15 Nov 2022 13:24:03 GMT

@phoenixbrd wrote:
Synchronicity and intuition...yes
Superstitious....no

@phoenixbrd

Growing up in an old-fashioned Italian family, I repeatedly heard all the aforementioned "Don'ts and Do's". They did not take root, thank heaven.

As I look back on the years since I formally retired and went on to start a solo consulting and training business, added several years as an adjunct professor, and then did career focus / career redirection projects for a national out placement firm, I often found my self in strange situations:

. Why couldn't I get out of the house until late afternoon

( Then I crossed paths with someone who needed me )

. How could I get "lost" taking a back road to an office

( Timing: Walked to elevator with someone who asked

such a basic, personal career question of me when

she didn't know my background. Conversation went

on for over an hour and made a lasting impact)

. As a seminar leader why would I use different examples despite covering the same material

( Message delivered: attendee approaches after session and shares her struggle / decision; adult student asks if I knew she was a former nun, wed to former priest, and ACOA...adult child of alcoholics)

It seems my prayer is always being heard: Let me say and do what needs to be said and done.

Synchronicity comes into play for a variety of reasons. Intuition comes into play because we are subconsciously taking in information / signs and responding. I learned early in my career to trust my instincts.

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DrakesMomma — Tue, 15 Nov 2022 13:30:33 GMT

Nope. When I was a kid I stepped on all the cracks in the sidewalk to break my mother's back. Nothing ever happened to her. Talk about disappointed.

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just bee — Tue, 15 Nov 2022 13:43:16 GMT

@CoffeeNut wrote:
My great aunt was. I remember as a child we were driving down a neighborhood road and she suddenly slammed on the brakes and did a U-turn in the middle of the road. She saw a black cat crossing the street ahead. I will never ever forget that.

@CoffeeNut

That's just silly. Everyone knows that it's white cats that are bad luck.

Re: Superstitious

just bee — Tue, 15 Nov 2022 13:49:23 GMT

I need to get my hair cut but the moon is waning, not waxing, so I can't.

Re: Superstitious

Malcontent — Tue, 15 Nov 2022 13:59:05 GMT

@just bee

Salve, sorella! lol

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just bee — Tue, 15 Nov 2022 14:05:46 GMT

@Malcontent

Buongiorno!

Re: Superstitious

Malcontent — Tue, 15 Nov 2022 14:14:12 GMT

For Italianos/Italianas, being superstitious is in our DNA. lol