Why Are We Superstitious?
Why is it that people are still superstitious in this day and age? With all the logic and technology that we have around us it seems a little silly. It is difficult to believe that some people are still cautious about opening an umbrella indoors, walking under a ladder or crossing on the stairs.
Perhaps there is some sort of comfort attached to it… By keeping superstition alive we are holding onto the past; an age where things were more magical, unexplainable and mysterious. Do we subconsciously yearn to be back in a time where a thunderstorm was something that only happened if God was angry?
I find it surprising just how many people are superstitious. There are still a huge amount of people who think that Friday the 13th might be unlucky for them or that they are in serious trouble for the next seven years if they break a mirror. Even things like Saint Christopher’s and charm bracelets are actually helping to feed an irrational fear of the unknown by ‘warding off’ bad luck.
It is strange how a race that is so advanced is still so easily controlled by superstitious hokum. You would think that we would have waved goodbye to it all a couple of hundred years ago.
Some of it, I am sure, is done completely subconsciously; touch wood, fingers crossed and that it is actually ingrained in our personalities. But just how many of us would be happy to let go of it altogether? Many of us have our own ‘lucky numbers’ on the Lottery even if they have never helped us to win any money…
I think that a lot of us need to have our superstitious rituals. They are something that makes us think that we have got a little bit of control in a universe of utter chaos and chance.
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