Superstitious
Oct. 24th, 2008 06:11 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kybearfuzzI come from a very superstitious lot. My dad would literally turn the car around if a black cat crossed the street in front of him and he once made me "un-walk" under a ladder that I had crept beneath. My mom would always say that misfortune occurs in threes and to this day finds the time "11:11" on her VCR as a portent of something unnerving that has yet to occur. My sister believes that an itchy palm is a sign of good luck coming and the bizarre pseduo-psychic antics of my older, identical twin brothers speak for themselves. And that's just the immediate family. Some members of my extended family are even worse. Growing up with such things left me with an unusual sensitivity to superstition. Logically, I know that they are not true, but in the back of my mind I have always wondered if it could be legit.
This week two coworkers in my branch have experienced tragedy. The first lost his father after a long illness on Monday. The other took his family's beloved pet cat into the vet Wednesday morning to be declawed and, for some yet unexplained reason, the cat died.
Wednesday night I had a disturbing dream in which bad things happened to a certain LJ-er friend of mine. It unnerved me to the point that I nearly sent him an IM yesterday to make sure he was okay. I wont say who, as I think he already believes me to be strange and I think relaying that I had a bad dream about him definitely would fuel that opinion. Needless to say, since he posted recently, I think he's doing alright.
Am I the only one who feels this way at times, or am I strange indeed?
This week two coworkers in my branch have experienced tragedy. The first lost his father after a long illness on Monday. The other took his family's beloved pet cat into the vet Wednesday morning to be declawed and, for some yet unexplained reason, the cat died.
Wednesday night I had a disturbing dream in which bad things happened to a certain LJ-er friend of mine. It unnerved me to the point that I nearly sent him an IM yesterday to make sure he was okay. I wont say who, as I think he already believes me to be strange and I think relaying that I had a bad dream about him definitely would fuel that opinion. Needless to say, since he posted recently, I think he's doing alright.
Am I the only one who feels this way at times, or am I strange indeed?
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Date: 2008-10-24 11:52 pm (UTC)I'm sure he was happy that you were checking on him.