For me, it’s wishing on a “falling star”. I know that they’re just asteroids, comets or space junk but I’ve been doing this since I was 5. It seems to work, if the wish is realistic like having a nice afternoon, the next day, not getting a beating, from my mother or getting a new job.
When I hit age 15, my nightly wish was “please, just give me two kids and a 3 bedroom ranch. That’s all I need“. I had no idea what property taxes were or how healthcare worked. I knew nothing, about real life…the downside of having a muscular/bone/connective tissue disorder, (hence, the desire for a ranch) without the support of parents, siblings or friends, to share life experiences and important information, to help shape my life.
How about you? What rituals/superstitions/mantras do you partake in, regardless of how ridiculous it sounds. And BE BEST, you guys! Oh, and trying to be grammatically correct is another ritual that I attempt. Be YOUR best. 😇🌊
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Not me but my friend goes out of her way to not walk under “openings” that aren’t door ways. Think of a power line pole and the guide wire making a “doorway”. It has something to do with it being a devil’s doorway or something crazy. She has a career in science but can’t forget her gypsy ways.
Holding my breath and making a wish when driving thru tunnels
Picking up heads up pennies and holding my breath while driving past a cemetery
I always close my curtains at night. Not for privacy or anything, but rather so that my wall of mirror tiles directly across from it doesn’t create mirrors facing each other. I don’t even believe in any ghost realm to create a portal too, in fact I’m stark atheist, but mirrors facing each other just make me a little uncomfortable.
5 second rule
When I was racing motocross regularly while waiting on the starting line I would always pat my tank and tell my bike that: “if she takes care of me for that race I will give her a good scrub down, a clean air filter and a complete once over when we get home.” My bike always came through.
Yes my bike is a female I don’t know why but she is.🤷♂️
Holding my breath when driving past a cemetery
Knocking on wood
Every time the clock says “11:11” I say hello to my best friend Maggi who died in 2011. She had a superstition about that time.
I work in coffee, and due to the chaos, I will never say “quiet” or “not busy” etc when referring to a shift. It’s a surefire way to get a busy shift is by doing a deep clean task after saying it’s quiet.
Spitting after coming across a dead animal. Don’t know why really, my grandparents did it and it feels wrong not to.
If I spill salt, I’m throwing it over my shoulder.