Re: Superstitious

LindaSal · ‎05-15-2014

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.

RNbynite · ‎05-10-2018

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

Group 5 minus 1 · ‎03-11-2010

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

I keep on dancin'

jlkz · ‎12-02-2013

@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.

We make a living by what we get. We make a life by what we give.
Sir Winston Churchill

DrakesMomma · ‎06-02-2010

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.

just bee · ‎03-10-2010

@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.

~My philosophy: Dogs are God's most perfect creatures. Angels, here on Earth, who teach us to be better human beings.~