Superstitions

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 I am back with another essay on superstitions. in the essay I have narrated how blindly following superstitions will backfire you some or the other day so we all must follow rational thinking. if you find the essay helpful do comment below and let me know if you have any suggestions.

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Superstitions

    

          Superstitions are irrational, unscientific beliefs of people regarding luck, fear, prophecy. It rises due to misunderstanding of science, fear, magic and even cultural tradition or individual experiences. I too had developed a superstition but it backfired me and I learned that superstitions are of no good and we all must develop rational thinking.

          I had a football tournament the next day and I hadn’t washed my jersey after my last tournament. I washed it in the evening and left it to dry in the balcony. The next day as I was packing for the tournament, I realized that my jersey was wet as it had rained the previous night. I was already late and didn’t have any other dry, clean jersey so I packed the wet jersey in a plastic bag. I was feeling quite uncomfortable in the wet jersey. The first match of the tournament begun and surprisingly I played like it was the best game I ever played. We won matches over matches are we eventually won the tournament.

           I was awarded as the best player for the first time. While returning home the only thing in my mind was my lucky wet jersey. This thing kept happening, whenever I would wear wet jersey, I would play better than usual. The seed of this belief was sown deep into my mind. I started wearing wet jersey for every tournament and even for practice session. I didn’t have the slightest hint of the problems that were awaiting me. I had practice sessions almost every day and I got habitual to wet my jersey before a game.

          One day when I returned home from a practice session, I went to have a bath and realized that there were tiny red spots all over my back. I thought that they would be some common rash and just ignored it. Overnight I started having itchy and burning sensation on my back. I told my father about it and he was horrified to see my back covered with fungal spots. We immediately consulted a dermatologist. The doctor said that I had fungal infection, that needs to be treated as early as possible.

          I confessed that I frequently used to wear wet jersey as I believed them to be lucky. My parents were very upset on this irrational superstition of mine. From that day onwards I always believed in scientific and rational thinking and understanding the logic, reason behind the things I do rather than blindly following superstition.    

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