Note: This is for an English assignment which, due to 'limited' time constraints, i couldn't finish. We were given topics to choose from and speak about. I chose superstitions.
I took my my dog out for a walk one morning. Out of sheer boredom, my mum decided to tag along.
A good 45 minutes later, while we were returning to out house, my mum suddenly yelled, "Mollika! WATCH OUT!" and tackled me to the ground with the strength of a sumo wrestler.
"What did you do that for?!" I yelled, while looking around frantically for someone who might have tried to kill us, or worse still, kidnap my dog.
Would anyone like to try and guess why she did that?
Mum did what she did because as usual, i wasn't looking where i was going, and i'd almost stepped on a lemon and some chillies, two of the MOST EVIL household ingredients known to mankind.
Superstition suggests that stepping on lemon and chillies lying around aimlessly on roads will bring the unsuspecting person (bless the poor bastard) untold misfortune, usually in the form of death, loss of wealth or at least a bad case of diarrhoea.
In my opinion, superstitions started out as little white lies that some pathetic loser told his rich and successful friends, in order to make his life seem a little less, well, pathetic.
Lost your job? Blame the cat that crossed your path earlier today!
People think you're ugly? Blame your mother for stepping outside the house on a moonless night when the euclidean horseshoe constellation is visible in the sky!
Okay, i'll admit i made that one up.
Some superstitions are clever creative and funny, while others are absurd and downright offensive. And of late, science has proved more than its fair share of superstitions to be cleverly spun farces. But i gotta hand it to whoever came up with the very first superstitions. An imagination as vivid as theirs is extremely difficult to find. It takes skill to convince millions of believers that stepping on a crack will truly break your mum's back!
As Albert Einstein rightly said, "Science without religion is lame; religion without science is blind."
I took my my dog out for a walk one morning. Out of sheer boredom, my mum decided to tag along.
A good 45 minutes later, while we were returning to out house, my mum suddenly yelled, "Mollika! WATCH OUT!" and tackled me to the ground with the strength of a sumo wrestler.
"What did you do that for?!" I yelled, while looking around frantically for someone who might have tried to kill us, or worse still, kidnap my dog.
Would anyone like to try and guess why she did that?
Mum did what she did because as usual, i wasn't looking where i was going, and i'd almost stepped on a lemon and some chillies, two of the MOST EVIL household ingredients known to mankind.
Superstition suggests that stepping on lemon and chillies lying around aimlessly on roads will bring the unsuspecting person (bless the poor bastard) untold misfortune, usually in the form of death, loss of wealth or at least a bad case of diarrhoea.
In my opinion, superstitions started out as little white lies that some pathetic loser told his rich and successful friends, in order to make his life seem a little less, well, pathetic.
Lost your job? Blame the cat that crossed your path earlier today!
People think you're ugly? Blame your mother for stepping outside the house on a moonless night when the euclidean horseshoe constellation is visible in the sky!
Okay, i'll admit i made that one up.
Some superstitions are clever creative and funny, while others are absurd and downright offensive. And of late, science has proved more than its fair share of superstitions to be cleverly spun farces. But i gotta hand it to whoever came up with the very first superstitions. An imagination as vivid as theirs is extremely difficult to find. It takes skill to convince millions of believers that stepping on a crack will truly break your mum's back!
As Albert Einstein rightly said, "Science without religion is lame; religion without science is blind."
2 comments:
so THIS is the story you wanted to tell! I was wondering how you wrote a story on superstition... I don't suppose you are considering posting your opinions on 'Cheeta Matchboxes'?
Naww. The whole world already knows of my loue for 'Cheeta Fight Matches-Karborised'.
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