Friday The 13th

Today is a day when you’re supposed to be extra careful!

After all, it IS Friday The 13th.

I know that 13 is supposed to be an unlucky number, but we have a 13th of the month 12 times a year. Why it is unlucky simply because it lands on a Friday (usually a good day, no?) is a mystery to me.

I searched YouTube for “Friday The 13th”—and as you might guess, all I got was clips from the horror flick of the same name. Next, I tried “Superstitions”, but all I got was Stevie Wonder singing his hit song.

Can’t call myself superstitious actually. Set up a ladder and I will sprint back and forth under it. Black cats? Bring ‘em on! And just how is it that a rabbit’s foot is “lucky”?

It sure wasn’t for the rabbit.

The problem is that superstitious people actually CREATE their bad luck by thinking about it---not that they WANT bad luck, but even in THINKING about avoiding bad events, the fact is that their focus is still on the bad occurrence. Since the mind cannot tell the difference between something desired and something not wanted—and since we attract both good and bad into our lives by merely THINKING, those trying to avoid the bad event are nonetheless attracting it into their lives by holding it in their conscious awareness.

These superstitious people are always full of stories of woe—their evidence that “bad luck” exists. And, of course it does, because they created it.

When I typed “unlucky people” into the YouTube search engine, I got a slew of videos of people engaged in stupid behaviors---that don’t end well. In what has become a favorite video category of the Tim Moore blog, here again we go---laughing at other people’s expense:



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_fKX4fucroM

OUCH!

Don’t try ANY of the above at home—and if you do, call 9-1-1 in advance---and for goodness sake, leave the video cameras OFF—otherwise, your unfortunate outcome may show up on a future blog!

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