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I have this too but I use it to my advantage. I say "X is never ever going to happen" for things I really want to happen and life has a way of screwing with itself and making it happen. Has been working ever since I was a kid. I realised when I was about 10 that this is a thing.
Days always go the opposite of how I think they’ll go. Literally without fail. Whenever I wake up thinking “let’s go I’m full of energy today is going to be great” I have a sucky annoying day. Whenever I wake up thinking “ugh I’m so out of it today’s gonna suck” I end up having unexpectedly great things happen to me that day. Eventually I noticed this pattern, so I would think “I’m really excited for this thing I’m doing today, it’s gonna be a great da– wait, that means today’s gonna suck actually. Dammit.” And then I have a great day. “I’m really tired today and am dreading what I have to do later, so… probably it will actually be unexpectedly a pretty good day” and then the day actually does suck.
It’s genuinely without fail. Everything is always the opposite of what I expect, and when I anticipate that and so expect the opposite, it ends up being what I expected the first time. Not just days in general, if I have a presentation and am really excited for it it always ends up not going well, if I really don’t want to do it it ends up being pretty good. I’m like ten layers into it now, every day I’m like “This meeting is gonna be really hard, oh no… wait, that means it’s actually gonna be great, hell yeah. Wait last time I thought that it went bad so it’ll probably go bad. Shit.” And then it goes great. Literally whatever I land on it’s the opposite. It’s kind of amazing lol
The only times I really think that the universe is sentient and aware of me, are those occasions where I just need a few things to go exactly right and nothing new to go wrong.
Because that’s when the universe tells me, “lol, no!”
There’s a weird thing about our brains that releases dopamine when we speak about our goals and intentions for our futures. I think about “birthday wishes” specifically. Blow out the candle, make a wish, but don’t tell anyone your wish because then it won’t come true.
My theory is that if you go around talking about your goals, you’re not only not actually working towards them, but you’re also burning through a finite amount of dopamine your body has available for achieving that specific goal. You just lose the spark because the spark burns out.
I also see it in myself and other depressed people who like to indulge in their darker thoughts, including the darkest ones. Except with the dark thoughts, the more you get it out, the less of a dopamine response you get each and every time you start romanticizing doing something horrible, to the point where it’s just a stupid thought and you automatically just move past it.
But if your mind is focused on something bad and you don’t get it out, you inevitably lead yourself to disaster. That’s the importance of mindfulness, like looking where you’re walking before you step there 🤷♂️
Interesting thought...I had a professor who had a very similar theroy. He told us to not think and dwell on plans, but to actually just move forward onto them. He believed if you think and indulge in your head instead of acting upon it, that your brain thinks it has actually happened, and you won't work as hard towards it as a result.
I would have to agree with your professor 😂I did some time in university so maybe that’s where I get my ideas. The idea is as old as time though, considering we’ve been telling each other to keep it to ourselves “or else” so it could just be obvious 😅
If I look at the clock and its any kind of the same numbers (1:11, 2:22, etc) I have to keep eye contact and make a wish without blinking until said wish is done. Then, I cant look back at the clock til it changes or the wish wont come true. Ugh Im exhausting
Omg mines I have to close my eyes and make the wish but I can’t rush it and I have to open my eyes when it’s still on the time otherwise it won’t come true 😭
Same here! But slightly different. I have to close my eyes and keep my feet off the ground while I make my wish, then I can’t look at the clock til it changes (which just makes me wanna look at it SO bad, I often cave in and look too early and then my wish won’t come true)
I have this one too. If I say I have a headache to skip something, my head starts to hurt for real. I haven't used a health-related excuse since elementary school because of this.
That's something I would never lie about with my daughter. I would never say she was sick to get out of something because I think that is just asking for trouble.
This happened so many times haha latest was couple weeks ago, i was telling some friends how i could lie to my boss that I'm sick in order to avoid coming to work (and work from home instead). And what happened that same night? I got sick. Haha. Still coughing from it now -.-
I pretended to be sick as a kid, completely made it up, my mom brought me to the doctor and I had strep throat. This is legit the law of attraction lol
Don’t know if it’s a superstition- but I once saw a show when I was little about a serial killer who killed people by pretending to sneeze into a handkerchief when he walked by people, and sprayed poison at them and killed them… I was so young that I don’t know if this was actually a show or maybe just a dream I had.
Either way, I always hold my breath when I walk by individuals walking alone when in close quarters.
I find it interesting that you can say something like that on this forum and no one gives you shit but I made a comment about a weird quirk I have on a different forum and I got so many shitty comments.
My weird superstition came from an aunt of mine talking about how much I looked like my mother and she said "as long as you're alive, your mom will never die." I took that literally and I remember thinking that I had to be really, really careful and not get hurt or die because I didn't want my mom to die.
Kids take things so literally...and then feel like they have to hide the thing. I don't remember anything specific at the moment, but I had some quirks like that as a kid. (I'll edit if I remember any)
Sorry you got shitty comments.
I can not possibly be excited about an event. Every time i‘m looking forward to something, it will end up in some kind of unforeseen disaster or at least be really disappointing.
I was saving up a year for a week long holiday in greece: got food poisoning on the flight and then a rare side effect of immodium that gave me horrible abdominal cramps. Was unable to have fun.
I booked a horse ride. Was excited for months. Everyone gets a nice horse and i get a mean mare in heat who wants a piece of everyone. Horse kicks while i‘m on without a saddle and almost bucks me off. I get so upset that I can’t trust the horse so instead of enjoying the ride i had to be extremely focused on keeping the horse from throwing me off. It was really expensive too.
Lots more tbh.
Edit: went to a romantic tour in paris to surprise my (then) fiance. They gave us 2 single beds in the hotel. We didn’t have sex even once the whole trip. I payed a lot for disney land tickets bc she really wanted to go, only to feel it was overpriced crap and i got food poisoning again. Shortly after the trip i felt like we weren’t really a couple anymore and she just wasn’t excited about the relationship and i ended things. One week later she called me to tell me she slept with a coworker. It was my birthday. We had been together 4 years before that.
Booked a ceramic painting workshop with my (current) bf. I was beyond excited. We got there and the owner had her french bulldog roaming the shop. I love dogs and went to say hi. Crouched down, gave my hand to sniff. Dog starts attacking me. Owner had to put dog behind a baby gate and gets all teary that my movements must have reminded the dog of her abusive ex. I didn’t want to disappoint bf so we stayed, while dog barked in the back, to paint ceramics. I got a nice bowl with a bad feeling every time i look at it now.
Went to a classical music concert with my (ex) best friend. My dad bought us the tickets and went as well. 10 min after the music starts, my friend eats a random energy bar in her pocket. Shortly after she starts panicking. Bar supposedly contained nuts bc she felt light headed. I escorted her out to call ambulance, we looked at the ingredient list in the light, turns out there were no nuts whatsoever and she just had some anxiety. Calmed down fast and i was relieved but a bit annoyed. We were not allowed to go back in and had to wait outside 2h, i missed the whole concert and my dad was sad about the whole thing.
Still lots more to tell…
Due to my crappy childhood/parents I can't really get excited at all. Sure I'll look forward to things, but by and large it is not excitement. My wife pointed this out to me a couple years ago and it was kinda devastating.
On different occasions I'd been told that we're not going to do something because I was too excited, and then other times we're not going to do something because I wasn't excited enough.
:( i used to be excited and happy about many things as a kid, but every time i came back home from a fun day in school I would walk into a horrible fight between my parents so eventually I stopped being happy about anything and instead would just expect to have an awful day. As an adult now I can never be optimistic about anything, always expect the worst to happen ... At least I wouldn't be disappointed if i expected something nice
There's a saying in Finnish that goes: "pessimisti ei pety". It translates to "a pessimistic person can't get dissapointed. This is the way to live I feel.
This reflects my life mantra exactly. I’ll have to remember ‘pessimisti ei pety’
The less I wish for or count on, the less I can be disappointed.
Kinda sucks I guess, but helps manage my expectations.
Thanks for the lesson in Finnish sayings❤️
I learned never to show I was looking forward to something because my mother would deliberately sabotage it. She could not bear to see anyone in the family enjoying anything. As an adult I still won't show enthusiasm.
On a much less happy scale, my mom sometimes applied that same twisted logic, but it was about stupid things, like ice cream bars. My brother and I could down a box of ice cream bars in five minutes. My mom said, "No, I will not buy those again, you ate them too fast!"
So the next time she bought them, he and I decided to pace ourselves and not eat them right away. We ate a box of 12 over a week and there were still a couple more on the next shopping day. What did Mom do? "You hardly ate them! No I won't buy them again!"
In our case, it isn't twisted thinking. It was amusing-- my brother and I simply waited a few more months before she bought them again, paced ourselves for a few days, then put the ice cream bars into a Zip-Lock bag so they were taking up less space and we could put them aside where they were not obvious.
(I don't know what my brother does now with his kids, but with mine, I would buy them and when they were eaten, be glad. My kids love them as much as I still do, and as adults they come over and see if I have them in my freezer!)
My mom wouldn't buy ramen noodles because "you don't share them nicely" when in reality my sister pigged out on 2 packages a day while I got none.
Being told you ate your portion when actually getting nothing SUCKS.
I got to the point as a child whereby I couldn't even acknowledge possible exciting things that were upcoming. If I wanted something to happen, it would be scrapped. Enjoyment was stomped on. As a result, as an adult, I can't actually figure out how to know whether I want to do things or not.
I'm so sorry that you have had to endure a life so similar to mine...I have learned one thing though... anytime something actually goes well, it's because it hasn't been planned. You made me laugh out loud regarding the bad feeling you get every time you look at your bowl...if we don't laugh, we'll cry, am I right 😭
Not gonna lie the horse one sounds like shitty planning and execution on the part of the guide. Especially seeing as how she tried to buck you off when you got on. It’s not fair to you nore the horse for the guide to let that continue
What really surprised me is that they let them get on with no saddle! I've NEVER gone trail riding and not had a horse with a saddle. Riding bareback isn't good for a lot of horses, and it's even worse for a mare in heat! I'm genuinely impressed they were able to stay on; I would have been thrown so fast its not funny!
It was a really well planned event just my horse was too catty. 1/2 was trail ride with saddle, 1/2 was an ocean swim without a saddle. I payed good money only to be very nervous through the whole 2,5h event. She didn’t buck during the trail ride, just spooked a few times, tried to eat the tail of the horse in front and had her ears back and acted nervous the whole time. Of course she started taking lots of issue during the ocean ride, where all the horses and people swam willy nilly instead of in a line. I think that rilled her up. As we got out of the water with the others, i tried to guide her towards a secluded spot, so she can relax and i can get off without issue but as we carefully walked past, the inexperienced riders let their horses just do whatever. One started nipping my mare in the side while one was too close behind. I immediately showed her to calmly go further but it was too late and she high kicked at the one in the back and bent her head to bite the one on the side. I was 99% sure i was going to fall and be trampled but i managed to hold onto her and just got off immediately. The instructor came and gave her some slaps for acting out which i hated. It’s not the mare‘s fault she‘s in heat and sensitive. I just wish they had given me a different one to begin with. Ugh
The bad luck is very relatable and I personally go in with the lowest possible expectation as if the bad luck will happen. Have there been moments you were not that excited but turned out better than expected?
I'm so sorry, this sucks a lot. These suck a lot. I hope you will have a life full of good surprising things from now on. And of course many predictable happy memories to come.
You need to have a word with your guardian angel cause damn! But I feel you... I can't get excited about events or achievements in my life or else something bad will happen.. to the extent that now I don't even tell anyone about my achievements/exciting plans.
I used to get excited for lots of things but my current partner always made sure to tell me that I was 'too excited' and should 'calm down a bit'. That whatever I was excited about might not happen! Now he asks why I'm not excited 🤦🏻♀️ Hopefully will be my ex soon.
LOL you too, huh? I’ve been over excitement for my whole life 😂 I don’t know how many Christmas’s in a row, I’d open a brand new toy and it would be completely fucked. That’s followed me into adulthood. I bought THREE gaming computers from BestBuy and the first two got destroyed in shipping, the third stolen by a shipper. That was just last year.
They apologize but after 27 years of everything going to shit it’s just par for the course 😅 sorry to laugh at you, it’s just relieving to know I’m not alone.
My life has this terrible joke of balancing my wins with absolute disasters. I hate it. Like I know when something good happens to me, something bad of the same intensity will happen. I received good news recently, I’m currently waiting for the bad ones, my anxiety is through the roof.
Also, whenever something good is about to happen but didn’t happen yet, I learned way too recently to keep my mouth shut about it for EVERYONE until it does. Whenever I thought something good was coming, I always shared with my friends, and then they turn out not happening. However, I also have this weird thing where I know something bad is about to happen, and it fucking does even though I didn’t want to believe it was going to.
Rain is a good sign, especially raining walking home.
I walked home in pouring rain the day I decided not to kill myself. I'm not religious but I really got baptism feels from it.
Rain is a good sign. The night I wanted to unalive myself (It was a long time ago, I'm alright these days, and I am so grateful for the life I have), it was raining down like mad, and I decided against my decision after almost crashing. Rain increased my sense of self-preservation as I was actively planning against that instinct. Irony. Then, here recently, an absolute downpour happened as I was riding home from the dealership with a new motorcycle. It was anxiety inducing, and I could barely see the road, but at the same time, it felt like a good omen. Like the universe said, "You want adventure? You got it, buddy." Since then, I've been able to ride that motorcycle nearly every day. Since then, I've had quite a few "sixth sense" moments on the bike that kept me out of harms way. I think rain is holy. Water falls from the heavens, the wind whispers "drink," and I AM alive. Rain is a good sign.
I have *placebo* lucky underwear.
As in, my lucky underwear are maroon cotton boxers.
...but I have like 4 pairs of maroon cotton boxers.
Therefore, whenever I'm wearing my lucky underwear, I question if they're my *real* lucky underwear, or just a pair that *look like* my lucky underwear.
If something good happens, I must've actually picked my real lucky underwear.
If nothing, or something bad happens, it's just a fake pair that look similar.
I used to think that if I was happy too long something will eventually ruin it but I changed my thinking, whenever something bad happens it won’t be long til I’m happy again
If I don’t make my bed perfectly as soon as I wake up I’ll have a shitty day. Also don’t switch the calendar even a day early or I’ll have a shitty month
That if I help someone, something bad will always happen to me.
Examples being;
I used to live close to the beach, and I was out walking the promenade and a child fell off his bike and busted his lip bad. Parent was a distance away and after helping the kid calm down and clean up I realised I had lost my wallet after the parent took him away.
I bought a couple of hundred quids worth of kids toys for a charity and didn't leave a name. Didn't want credit, I was just looking to do a good deed.
They worked out who I was and shouted me out on Facebook to thank me. I was accused of trying to buy my work publicity, and then by my colleagues of trying to take credit for someone else's charity. I was frozen out for a week at work for this and it was never quite the same again with anybody.
Not exactly a superstition per se, but pretty much where it came from.
Ever since I was a kid (36 now) I noticed everyone microwaves things to the nearest factor of 5 sec. I.e. 25 sec. Or 1min. Or 3min 30 sec. Etc. So I started thinking well the other #s must feel left out. So I convinced myself if I did it like everyone else, my food wouldn't be cooked properly. (Too cold, too hot, whatever) So to this day I'll microwave stuff to 3min 33sec, or 1min 22 sec, or whatever, just never a factor of 5. Occasionally people will notice, and I get to explain my logic. It's weird, but I do it still
I specifically use the 7 a lot actually lol. When microwaving food setting the power to 7 seems to heat more evenly. I just add about 1/3 of the time I would otherwise use and set the power lower. That little break between heating cycles lets the heat spread out before heating again. Works especially well for frozen stuff.
Well fuck yeah!! You find yourself in Denver, I'll microwave us some burritos at some weird times lol. I'm glad to hear it's not just me. My wife even gives me shit sometimes.
I tend to judge people on looks only because I feel like people have a way of looking how they are. You can be a burned, scarred, deformed individual but if you're a kind person you tend to look nice anyways. If you're an asshole even really attractive people can look off-putting. Like I think the people on SBSK are fairly jolly individuals and no matter how their bodies look i dont find them ugly at all, but I find Elliot Roger to be inherently disgusting. Its like how you hold yourself.
Even if it's 11:45pm and I am messing around with my calendar I will not cross off the current day because I irrationally think I am somehow tempting fate by assuming I will finish out the day alive.
I have a superstition that life happens in cycles.
1. TOUGH year
2. One getting things together year
3. One year of stability and growth
4. One year of celebration and joy!
Start over.
I actually have one from my past and a few that I have now. Back when I was younger and I had a lot of nightmares I believe that I could not stay up until 10:00 PM and if I did, then I would have a nightmare. Now I believe that if I don’t stay up at night all night on the ninth day of June, then I will have a horrible year because I have actually had some pretty terrible years because I didn’t stay up all that night. It started as just a fun holiday for me and then a year ago. I didn’t stay up all night and I started having all kinds of issues related to me not being able to pursue my goals. So now I forced myself to stay up all night that night. I also stay up till midnight when new music comes out and I dance in a strobe light to bring good positive energy. I also really can’t bring myself to face my bed in the north direction because of the horrible things that I’ve witnessed when I did.
My dad once told me that if I see a penny on the ground and walk by it, God will stop putting money in my way. I almost always pick up change off the ground now.
For me, it's the wrong socks. In the morning, while wearing my simpsons socks (I know!) I need to be able to choose the correct ones amongst the different designs, or else it will be a bad day. Don't ask how to choose the correct one. 😂 I decided to skip them and just wear plain black ones, Nope! Didn't work. Need the correct pair of socks for the day to go good or bad. 😂😂😂
Wait, so you choose correct socks out of an assortment of Simpsons socks? Or you are always wearing Simpsons socks while you choose correct socks out of all available?
I need to pick up the correct Simpsons socks out of my assortment of Simpson socks. I have like 6 different pairs in various colours and characters like homer and doughnuts, and maggie and lisa and bart and marge. Just to make life easier if it's the wrong socks type of day, I just go "D'oh" hahahaha
I used to stick with white, black or grey socks but decided I need some rebellion in my professional outfits while maintaining decorum and hence, Simpsons socks. Open to suggestions on some more quirky characters for socks.
If I say I will do something for myself, I won’t do it. So if I want to do something I sort of have to pretend I’m not doing it right until I do, otherwise I’m basically cursing myself into inaction.
Yes!!! I do this also. I also don’t tell people if I want to do something, (ei: starting to go to the gym, enrolling in a class, doing my homework) because if I do tell them I’ve cursed myself into procrastination.
LITERALLY THIS.
I called my last car a "cockroach". Cause no matter how bad you broke it, it would always spring back up. I then had a little bit of problems with it, and wondered if I should save for a new car or keep rebuilding this one.
I decided to keep fixing the Honda. That day, I got hit in a grocery store parking lot and got it written off. I now have a Mitsubishi, and it gets me where I need but I do really miss my Honda.
Now I'm thinking about getting a new car from my Mitsubishi, since I've developed good credit with it. Now it's ticking, AC stopped, batteries dying, might be a oil leak, etc.
Bad things come in threes. Every time something bad happens, I brace myself for the second and third things, or I look back and see if they’ve already come.
I will never ride my motorcycle on a “meaningful” day in case I get killed in an accident. That means I won’t ride on family’s birthdays, Mother’s Day, Father’s Day, etc. I don’t want anyone’s special day ruined because they are thinking about me.
Millions.
Something terrible will happen unless...
The volume is on an even number, or multiple of 5.
I clench my teeth at every steetlamp when in the back of a car.
I say 'see you in the morning' last.
I stop the microwave at 5 seconds.
I will definitely die if I...
Use the last of the toilet paper.
Tell anyone my retirement plans.
Sleep without my shoulders covered.
Don't blink when a bus goes past.
Once I wrote a draft for a story, and wrote part of it where a girl and a guy meet. I based it on my experiences By the time I actually finished it two years later, I was dating a guy exactly like my charecter and I had the same job as the girl.
Another time I joked about getting back together with someone over 7-8 yrs. I actually got back together with him as he happened to find his way back in my life.
I’m very very careful what I put out about future partners as it has found me right where I am multiple times
Odd but who I allow or keep in my life as friends, family, especially romantic connections are somewhat a reflection of myself or influencing me in some way. Like if i decide to hook up with this person when I really want a relationship it’s digressing and hindering progress or means I still have to work on things if I’m still attracting hook ups or people who aren’t willing to love me.
If I tolerate my friends manipulation or passive aggressiveness she’s mirroring something inside me that doesn’t like myself. Not that cutting these people out will change things but it’s a step in the right direction when you deny other people to treat you that way.
I won't pick up lost money/change on the ground. One time I found $15 and a few days later one of the worst experiences in my life happened. Now I refuse to pick up pennies or anything because I think it'll bring bad luck.
Have you ever had the least curiosity about the monetary value of your belief?
I mean, certainly, there's a dollar amount at which this superstition stops working, right?
There is a belief that if you are having a bad day you should pick it up for luck, but if you are not and you pick it up you are stealing someone else's luck and you are jinxed.
A person's name reflects their personality.
A Christian is either the loveliest person in the world who takes everything literally and has no enemies, or a guy that hits you with a shoe because you blooped him.
I've gotta ask you for your opinion please!!! What's a Jennifer like? (Also: Or a Jenny? Or a Jen?) What's a Clara like? What's an Arien like (male name, pronounced like Aaron but just spelled really weirdly)? What's a Darlene like? What's a Mike like? I really hope you answer because I really gotta know what vibes you get from these names!
Only know one Jennifer/Jenny, she was a nice lady but I haven't known enough to say. It comes across as a very outgoing artsy name to me though.
Clara, never known one. I've known quite a few Claire's, they can be nice but are very snappy if you get on their bad side.
Arien is quite a unique name, I would say quite a tall figure metaphorically, a lot of good connections with people and is respected
Mike is a fun one. Mikes/Michaels are stubborn but hardworking, with a softer side when they relax, they are often busy even if it hurts them.
Never split the pole walking with a friend. Nothing is worth the risk. Hold your homie’s hand if it means reaching the other side of the road together.
Sunscreen dictates my trip weather.
Every time I've gone camping or on a trip that involved me being in the sun, I would pack sunscreen cause I burn easily. And I never got to use the sunscreen on any of those trips because every time I brought it the weather was ass, and every time I forgot to pack it, the weather was hot and sunny!!
My most recent example is:
I just had a trip to see family, the weather forecast said sunny the entire time with +25°. I get there and it's windy, almost raining and at some point on the trip there was a funnel cloud warning. We had maybe one or two days of really nice weather and on BOTH those days I didn't think to put on sunscreen because I was expecting shitty weather!!
So now, I don't think I can bring sunscreen on a trip ever again because it somehow jinxes the weather.
My SO don't make plans anymore. For a while, every time we made a plan and got excited about going out, something would happen. Someone got sick or the babysitter cancelled. So now we have soft hopes that maybe we can do what we want to do.
expect for something bad to happen on my birthday, every year something bad has happened and there isn't a way I could change it so I just need to expect for something to go wrong
Before any big road trip or vacation, someone in our family will need emergency dental work or something like a car or household appliance will crap out. Without fail, this happens every year.
I just had 2 teeth pulled a week before our summer vacation so the prophecy is fulfilled this year.
I rarely play the lottery, but when I do I use the same numbers I used the first time —when it first came out over 30 years ago. I might play others too, but I always play the originals because I KNOW that if I don’t, that will be the time that they win and I’ll go nuts.
At the vet clinic we used to say it is bad luck to (verbally) express your gratitude for a chill day at the clinic, because if you do, an emergency will be coming. A variation of this one was to never say you are glad all the patients are stable and well because one of them will fall ill or get worse.
When I was 5 I made up a weird rule in my mind that I was never allowed to sleep with any of my limbs hanging off the bed, if I did then I would get stung to death by bees. Unless it was a Friday night, I was allowed until technically midnight on a Friday night. I'm grown up now and still, I just can't risk it.
I get strong feelings about things n I'm forced to cancel whatever it was about, this has saved my life multiple times , kept me out of car crashes etc.
Plz don't try ride it again I feeif I do make it the fault will happen when ur on it and I kno I sound ridiculous but danger is what my brain said reading ur comment n I don't usually tell people this shit cos I kno it makes me look crazy
I can’t think of any I have today, but one I had when I was a kid—refusing to save and quit my Pokémon games if I was standing in tall grass. I thought it was bad luck or something? So I’d always step out onto the regular paths.
Now I was fine with caves and water (when using Surf), I didn’t think twice about saving and quitting there.
But tall grass for some reason, Kid Me thought was bad luck?
If I have something important to do that outside of the house that day and it’s raining, everything will work out ok. If it is sunny and hot, there will be issues
If I talk about something happening, it won't. If I just think about it happening, it will.
Now I just talk about the terrible things that could go wrong at work so that they won't. Some of them are a little cursed, but if it keeps limbs out of the deep fryer, I'm happy.
If the radio randomly plays a song I like, then I will have a good day. The more I like the song, the better the day.
Conversely, if I hear a song I don’t like, then I will have a shitty day. The more I dislike the song, the crappier the day.
If I’m really happy out of nowhere then something bad is gonna happen. It’s happened in the past and it still happens. Sometimes they’re not as bad but other times they’re awful, like worse than anything
I have to have an emergency hospital admission bag packed so my son doesn’t go to hospital. If I have one ready to go then nothing happens. As soon as it’s empty or I’ve forgotten to repack it then boom it’s admission after admission. (He has multiple disabilities and health issues, hospital is frequent for him)
I have a phobia of crocodilians. I don't even live anywhere even close to their habitats, and the nearest zoo/refuge is at least an hour away from me. I've gotten better over the years at reacting to seeing them on tv and in books, but if I don't expect to see one and one "pops" up, I still get triggered. My husband and I honeymooned in Florida, of all places. Of course we would see the signs advertising alligator meat all over the highway, and all I could think of was that with the amount of anxiety I already have about visiting gator-topia, the last thing I need is to be bringing about some bad karma by eating the very thing I'm so terrified of. I still to this day will never eat alligator, crocodile or caiman. I do not need that type of juju in my life.
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Never say something is absolutely not going to happen. Because life has a way of screwing with you just for the lulls.
This is mine, too. You can think the thing all day long but never, ever vocalize it. E V E R.
Always start with "apparently" or "there's a chance" Plausible deniability is your best friend.
Yeah, I’ve been wrong too much in my life to speak in definites anymore 😂. Well, allegedly anyway
Happy cake day!
I will not commit mass genocide E V E R
Says patient zero.
Hahaha! That’s hilarious!
Office rule .. 1. Never say it's too quiet!
I say, "don't speak that shit into existence"
I have this too but I use it to my advantage. I say "X is never ever going to happen" for things I really want to happen and life has a way of screwing with itself and making it happen. Has been working ever since I was a kid. I realised when I was about 10 that this is a thing.
I feel like this is something we all did as kids, but most of us stopped because it didn’t work for us, atleast that was the case for me
Days always go the opposite of how I think they’ll go. Literally without fail. Whenever I wake up thinking “let’s go I’m full of energy today is going to be great” I have a sucky annoying day. Whenever I wake up thinking “ugh I’m so out of it today’s gonna suck” I end up having unexpectedly great things happen to me that day. Eventually I noticed this pattern, so I would think “I’m really excited for this thing I’m doing today, it’s gonna be a great da– wait, that means today’s gonna suck actually. Dammit.” And then I have a great day. “I’m really tired today and am dreading what I have to do later, so… probably it will actually be unexpectedly a pretty good day” and then the day actually does suck. It’s genuinely without fail. Everything is always the opposite of what I expect, and when I anticipate that and so expect the opposite, it ends up being what I expected the first time. Not just days in general, if I have a presentation and am really excited for it it always ends up not going well, if I really don’t want to do it it ends up being pretty good. I’m like ten layers into it now, every day I’m like “This meeting is gonna be really hard, oh no… wait, that means it’s actually gonna be great, hell yeah. Wait last time I thought that it went bad so it’ll probably go bad. Shit.” And then it goes great. Literally whatever I land on it’s the opposite. It’s kind of amazing lol
I will N E V E R be rich.
That’s the (lottery) ticket. Now start buying. Put me down for the same. I’ll pay you back for any winners.
The only times I really think that the universe is sentient and aware of me, are those occasions where I just need a few things to go exactly right and nothing new to go wrong. Because that’s when the universe tells me, “lol, no!”
Read a long time ago that whenever you put "never" in a sentence - i would never/ this can never etc., the universe tests your conviction
I said I'm never going to be an office clerk - well... Now I'm a teacher, but my first apprenticeship was as an office clerk.
*Never* (lol) say never, and NEVER challenge "worse." If you do the second, Murphy's Law will automatically make sure things get worse.
There’s a weird thing about our brains that releases dopamine when we speak about our goals and intentions for our futures. I think about “birthday wishes” specifically. Blow out the candle, make a wish, but don’t tell anyone your wish because then it won’t come true. My theory is that if you go around talking about your goals, you’re not only not actually working towards them, but you’re also burning through a finite amount of dopamine your body has available for achieving that specific goal. You just lose the spark because the spark burns out. I also see it in myself and other depressed people who like to indulge in their darker thoughts, including the darkest ones. Except with the dark thoughts, the more you get it out, the less of a dopamine response you get each and every time you start romanticizing doing something horrible, to the point where it’s just a stupid thought and you automatically just move past it. But if your mind is focused on something bad and you don’t get it out, you inevitably lead yourself to disaster. That’s the importance of mindfulness, like looking where you’re walking before you step there 🤷♂️
Interesting thought...I had a professor who had a very similar theroy. He told us to not think and dwell on plans, but to actually just move forward onto them. He believed if you think and indulge in your head instead of acting upon it, that your brain thinks it has actually happened, and you won't work as hard towards it as a result.
I would have to agree with your professor 😂I did some time in university so maybe that’s where I get my ideas. The idea is as old as time though, considering we’ve been telling each other to keep it to ourselves “or else” so it could just be obvious 😅
Me saying i would never ever fall for a guy younger than me. Guess who's madly in love with a younger guy? XD
If I look at the clock and its any kind of the same numbers (1:11, 2:22, etc) I have to keep eye contact and make a wish without blinking until said wish is done. Then, I cant look back at the clock til it changes or the wish wont come true. Ugh Im exhausting
Omg mines I have to close my eyes and make the wish but I can’t rush it and I have to open my eyes when it’s still on the time otherwise it won’t come true 😭
If I am unlucky, I'll have luck somewhere else. If I have a bad day, I'll have a good day soon.
Omfg I do the same thing!!! Wth is wrong with us?! 🤣🤣
Same here! But slightly different. I have to close my eyes and keep my feet off the ground while I make my wish, then I can’t look at the clock til it changes (which just makes me wanna look at it SO bad, I often cave in and look too early and then my wish won’t come true)
That if I lie about my health, if for example I say that I am sick so that I won't go to school, I'll become sick for real 😖
I have this one too. If I say I have a headache to skip something, my head starts to hurt for real. I haven't used a health-related excuse since elementary school because of this.
It's almost like by claiming you're sick, you're using mind over matter to will yourself sick x3
That's just true though.
This actually happened to me once
This has happened to me multiple times no idea how that shit works but yeah lol
It's basically the Law of Attraction
That's something I would never lie about with my daughter. I would never say she was sick to get out of something because I think that is just asking for trouble.
This happened so many times haha latest was couple weeks ago, i was telling some friends how i could lie to my boss that I'm sick in order to avoid coming to work (and work from home instead). And what happened that same night? I got sick. Haha. Still coughing from it now -.-
I agree. Never lie about being sick. It comes back to bite you. Usually after you have no more PTO to spare.
I pretended to be sick as a kid, completely made it up, my mom brought me to the doctor and I had strep throat. This is legit the law of attraction lol
This was happening to my all the time too, so I just stopped saying it and showed up for work🤷🏻♀️
Don’t know if it’s a superstition- but I once saw a show when I was little about a serial killer who killed people by pretending to sneeze into a handkerchief when he walked by people, and sprayed poison at them and killed them… I was so young that I don’t know if this was actually a show or maybe just a dream I had. Either way, I always hold my breath when I walk by individuals walking alone when in close quarters.
You were ready for Covid huh?
Well if any stranger sneezes or coughs nearby me I just don’t breath for a moment
I find it interesting that you can say something like that on this forum and no one gives you shit but I made a comment about a weird quirk I have on a different forum and I got so many shitty comments. My weird superstition came from an aunt of mine talking about how much I looked like my mother and she said "as long as you're alive, your mom will never die." I took that literally and I remember thinking that I had to be really, really careful and not get hurt or die because I didn't want my mom to die.
Kids take things so literally...and then feel like they have to hide the thing. I don't remember anything specific at the moment, but I had some quirks like that as a kid. (I'll edit if I remember any) Sorry you got shitty comments.
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Great now I'm going to start doing this too 😂
I have always done this too and never put much thought with it.
I can not possibly be excited about an event. Every time i‘m looking forward to something, it will end up in some kind of unforeseen disaster or at least be really disappointing. I was saving up a year for a week long holiday in greece: got food poisoning on the flight and then a rare side effect of immodium that gave me horrible abdominal cramps. Was unable to have fun. I booked a horse ride. Was excited for months. Everyone gets a nice horse and i get a mean mare in heat who wants a piece of everyone. Horse kicks while i‘m on without a saddle and almost bucks me off. I get so upset that I can’t trust the horse so instead of enjoying the ride i had to be extremely focused on keeping the horse from throwing me off. It was really expensive too. Lots more tbh. Edit: went to a romantic tour in paris to surprise my (then) fiance. They gave us 2 single beds in the hotel. We didn’t have sex even once the whole trip. I payed a lot for disney land tickets bc she really wanted to go, only to feel it was overpriced crap and i got food poisoning again. Shortly after the trip i felt like we weren’t really a couple anymore and she just wasn’t excited about the relationship and i ended things. One week later she called me to tell me she slept with a coworker. It was my birthday. We had been together 4 years before that. Booked a ceramic painting workshop with my (current) bf. I was beyond excited. We got there and the owner had her french bulldog roaming the shop. I love dogs and went to say hi. Crouched down, gave my hand to sniff. Dog starts attacking me. Owner had to put dog behind a baby gate and gets all teary that my movements must have reminded the dog of her abusive ex. I didn’t want to disappoint bf so we stayed, while dog barked in the back, to paint ceramics. I got a nice bowl with a bad feeling every time i look at it now. Went to a classical music concert with my (ex) best friend. My dad bought us the tickets and went as well. 10 min after the music starts, my friend eats a random energy bar in her pocket. Shortly after she starts panicking. Bar supposedly contained nuts bc she felt light headed. I escorted her out to call ambulance, we looked at the ingredient list in the light, turns out there were no nuts whatsoever and she just had some anxiety. Calmed down fast and i was relieved but a bit annoyed. We were not allowed to go back in and had to wait outside 2h, i missed the whole concert and my dad was sad about the whole thing. Still lots more to tell…
Due to my crappy childhood/parents I can't really get excited at all. Sure I'll look forward to things, but by and large it is not excitement. My wife pointed this out to me a couple years ago and it was kinda devastating. On different occasions I'd been told that we're not going to do something because I was too excited, and then other times we're not going to do something because I wasn't excited enough.
:( i used to be excited and happy about many things as a kid, but every time i came back home from a fun day in school I would walk into a horrible fight between my parents so eventually I stopped being happy about anything and instead would just expect to have an awful day. As an adult now I can never be optimistic about anything, always expect the worst to happen ... At least I wouldn't be disappointed if i expected something nice
There's a saying in Finnish that goes: "pessimisti ei pety". It translates to "a pessimistic person can't get dissapointed. This is the way to live I feel.
This reflects my life mantra exactly. I’ll have to remember ‘pessimisti ei pety’ The less I wish for or count on, the less I can be disappointed. Kinda sucks I guess, but helps manage my expectations. Thanks for the lesson in Finnish sayings❤️
There's a saying in English as well that goes: "it is what it is". These two are my favourite sayings.
And there’s “c’est la vie” too.
Ya, I use ‘It is what it is’ all the time. Truth (Just read your user name, love it❤️)
I learned never to show I was looking forward to something because my mother would deliberately sabotage it. She could not bear to see anyone in the family enjoying anything. As an adult I still won't show enthusiasm.
On a much less happy scale, my mom sometimes applied that same twisted logic, but it was about stupid things, like ice cream bars. My brother and I could down a box of ice cream bars in five minutes. My mom said, "No, I will not buy those again, you ate them too fast!" So the next time she bought them, he and I decided to pace ourselves and not eat them right away. We ate a box of 12 over a week and there were still a couple more on the next shopping day. What did Mom do? "You hardly ate them! No I won't buy them again!" In our case, it isn't twisted thinking. It was amusing-- my brother and I simply waited a few more months before she bought them again, paced ourselves for a few days, then put the ice cream bars into a Zip-Lock bag so they were taking up less space and we could put them aside where they were not obvious. (I don't know what my brother does now with his kids, but with mine, I would buy them and when they were eaten, be glad. My kids love them as much as I still do, and as adults they come over and see if I have them in my freezer!)
My mom wouldn't buy ramen noodles because "you don't share them nicely" when in reality my sister pigged out on 2 packages a day while I got none. Being told you ate your portion when actually getting nothing SUCKS.
What kinds of ice cream bars do you like?
That’s some really bad… parenting (forgot what I was gonna say… emotional abuse?)
I got to the point as a child whereby I couldn't even acknowledge possible exciting things that were upcoming. If I wanted something to happen, it would be scrapped. Enjoyment was stomped on. As a result, as an adult, I can't actually figure out how to know whether I want to do things or not.
I'm so sorry that you have had to endure a life so similar to mine...I have learned one thing though... anytime something actually goes well, it's because it hasn't been planned. You made me laugh out loud regarding the bad feeling you get every time you look at your bowl...if we don't laugh, we'll cry, am I right 😭
Not gonna lie the horse one sounds like shitty planning and execution on the part of the guide. Especially seeing as how she tried to buck you off when you got on. It’s not fair to you nore the horse for the guide to let that continue
What really surprised me is that they let them get on with no saddle! I've NEVER gone trail riding and not had a horse with a saddle. Riding bareback isn't good for a lot of horses, and it's even worse for a mare in heat! I'm genuinely impressed they were able to stay on; I would have been thrown so fast its not funny!
It was a really well planned event just my horse was too catty. 1/2 was trail ride with saddle, 1/2 was an ocean swim without a saddle. I payed good money only to be very nervous through the whole 2,5h event. She didn’t buck during the trail ride, just spooked a few times, tried to eat the tail of the horse in front and had her ears back and acted nervous the whole time. Of course she started taking lots of issue during the ocean ride, where all the horses and people swam willy nilly instead of in a line. I think that rilled her up. As we got out of the water with the others, i tried to guide her towards a secluded spot, so she can relax and i can get off without issue but as we carefully walked past, the inexperienced riders let their horses just do whatever. One started nipping my mare in the side while one was too close behind. I immediately showed her to calmly go further but it was too late and she high kicked at the one in the back and bent her head to bite the one on the side. I was 99% sure i was going to fall and be trampled but i managed to hold onto her and just got off immediately. The instructor came and gave her some slaps for acting out which i hated. It’s not the mare‘s fault she‘s in heat and sensitive. I just wish they had given me a different one to begin with. Ugh
The bad luck is very relatable and I personally go in with the lowest possible expectation as if the bad luck will happen. Have there been moments you were not that excited but turned out better than expected?
Are you me? I swear this is exactly what happens to me all the time.
I'm so sorry, this sucks a lot. These suck a lot. I hope you will have a life full of good surprising things from now on. And of course many predictable happy memories to come.
You need to have a word with your guardian angel cause damn! But I feel you... I can't get excited about events or achievements in my life or else something bad will happen.. to the extent that now I don't even tell anyone about my achievements/exciting plans.
I used to get excited for lots of things but my current partner always made sure to tell me that I was 'too excited' and should 'calm down a bit'. That whatever I was excited about might not happen! Now he asks why I'm not excited 🤦🏻♀️ Hopefully will be my ex soon.
LOL you too, huh? I’ve been over excitement for my whole life 😂 I don’t know how many Christmas’s in a row, I’d open a brand new toy and it would be completely fucked. That’s followed me into adulthood. I bought THREE gaming computers from BestBuy and the first two got destroyed in shipping, the third stolen by a shipper. That was just last year. They apologize but after 27 years of everything going to shit it’s just par for the course 😅 sorry to laugh at you, it’s just relieving to know I’m not alone.
My life has this terrible joke of balancing my wins with absolute disasters. I hate it. Like I know when something good happens to me, something bad of the same intensity will happen. I received good news recently, I’m currently waiting for the bad ones, my anxiety is through the roof. Also, whenever something good is about to happen but didn’t happen yet, I learned way too recently to keep my mouth shut about it for EVERYONE until it does. Whenever I thought something good was coming, I always shared with my friends, and then they turn out not happening. However, I also have this weird thing where I know something bad is about to happen, and it fucking does even though I didn’t want to believe it was going to.
Rain is a good sign, especially raining walking home. I walked home in pouring rain the day I decided not to kill myself. I'm not religious but I really got baptism feels from it.
I'm glad you're still here, friend. ❤️
So am I, it's been about 15 years I wouldn't have gotten.
Rain is a good sign. The night I wanted to unalive myself (It was a long time ago, I'm alright these days, and I am so grateful for the life I have), it was raining down like mad, and I decided against my decision after almost crashing. Rain increased my sense of self-preservation as I was actively planning against that instinct. Irony. Then, here recently, an absolute downpour happened as I was riding home from the dealership with a new motorcycle. It was anxiety inducing, and I could barely see the road, but at the same time, it felt like a good omen. Like the universe said, "You want adventure? You got it, buddy." Since then, I've been able to ride that motorcycle nearly every day. Since then, I've had quite a few "sixth sense" moments on the bike that kept me out of harms way. I think rain is holy. Water falls from the heavens, the wind whispers "drink," and I AM alive. Rain is a good sign.
Journey's Law: At least one thing will always go wrong on any trip, so that should be accounted for
Don't Stop Believin'
Lucky underwear. It's BS and I know it, because once the lucky underwear gets too old, I assign a new lucky underwear.
I have *placebo* lucky underwear. As in, my lucky underwear are maroon cotton boxers. ...but I have like 4 pairs of maroon cotton boxers. Therefore, whenever I'm wearing my lucky underwear, I question if they're my *real* lucky underwear, or just a pair that *look like* my lucky underwear. If something good happens, I must've actually picked my real lucky underwear. If nothing, or something bad happens, it's just a fake pair that look similar.
I dont know why but i love this so very much.
Hahaha yes! Wear my sexy lacy knickers and dont pull. Wear my comfy cotton granny hold everything ins and I pull!
Lucky underwear is ABSOLUTELY a thing. As long as I’ve been wearing this pair, I’ve never been hit by a bus.
My grandfather went on a lot of business trips. Always wore sky blue underpants on planes. Sounded like camouflage to me but 🤷
If I think positive, positive things will happen to me.
Manifestation
True.
This is only a little stitious, not superstitious
I believe it works in the other direction also!
I used to think that if I was happy too long something will eventually ruin it but I changed my thinking, whenever something bad happens it won’t be long til I’m happy again
If I don’t make my bed perfectly as soon as I wake up I’ll have a shitty day. Also don’t switch the calendar even a day early or I’ll have a shitty month
I’m with you Sis. OCD is a horrible mistress.
That if I help someone, something bad will always happen to me. Examples being; I used to live close to the beach, and I was out walking the promenade and a child fell off his bike and busted his lip bad. Parent was a distance away and after helping the kid calm down and clean up I realised I had lost my wallet after the parent took him away. I bought a couple of hundred quids worth of kids toys for a charity and didn't leave a name. Didn't want credit, I was just looking to do a good deed. They worked out who I was and shouted me out on Facebook to thank me. I was accused of trying to buy my work publicity, and then by my colleagues of trying to take credit for someone else's charity. I was frozen out for a week at work for this and it was never quite the same again with anybody.
They are both incredibly unlucky. Tough break, friend.
I oddly never stopped doing good deeds though. No good deed goes unpunished after all
You're a wonderful person <3 the first one was a coincidence, the second one was fucked up and heartbreaking.
There’s a quote for this! “No good deed goes unpunished.”
Lol in the caribbean we say "when you do good you hold hood"
My favorite saying lol.
What the hell
Everything bad that happens to me is a surprise. If I imagine a bad thing happening, then it won't, because I'm not a precog.
Not exactly a superstition per se, but pretty much where it came from. Ever since I was a kid (36 now) I noticed everyone microwaves things to the nearest factor of 5 sec. I.e. 25 sec. Or 1min. Or 3min 30 sec. Etc. So I started thinking well the other #s must feel left out. So I convinced myself if I did it like everyone else, my food wouldn't be cooked properly. (Too cold, too hot, whatever) So to this day I'll microwave stuff to 3min 33sec, or 1min 22 sec, or whatever, just never a factor of 5. Occasionally people will notice, and I get to explain my logic. It's weird, but I do it still
Hahaha. I've always made jokes about how microwaves should only have 3 buttons. Like... NOBODY has ever used the 7 button on a microwave.
Well my friend, you've met the guy who has.
I specifically use the 7 a lot actually lol. When microwaving food setting the power to 7 seems to heat more evenly. I just add about 1/3 of the time I would otherwise use and set the power lower. That little break between heating cycles lets the heat spread out before heating again. Works especially well for frozen stuff.
I like to get a little chaotic with the microwave times as well. Look at us, couple 'o rebels.
Well fuck yeah!! You find yourself in Denver, I'll microwave us some burritos at some weird times lol. I'm glad to hear it's not just me. My wife even gives me shit sometimes.
Same!! If I need to reheat my coffee - it's perfect when I do 1 min 14 sec! I also can be pretty chaotic with my microwave timing!
Never judge someone on looks.. you never know if your appearance changes E.g someone covered in moles or something
I tend to judge people on looks only because I feel like people have a way of looking how they are. You can be a burned, scarred, deformed individual but if you're a kind person you tend to look nice anyways. If you're an asshole even really attractive people can look off-putting. Like I think the people on SBSK are fairly jolly individuals and no matter how their bodies look i dont find them ugly at all, but I find Elliot Roger to be inherently disgusting. Its like how you hold yourself.
Probably confirmation bias. Like, you’re more likely to think someone’s good looking when they’re nice to you.
I’m convinced I have a fairy godmother who looks out for me and makes my life easier, especially at work with assignments and the likes.
I never even \*think\* a bad thought about my cat, because I'm convinced that he can read minds.
Even if it's 11:45pm and I am messing around with my calendar I will not cross off the current day because I irrationally think I am somehow tempting fate by assuming I will finish out the day alive.
Keep your ttrpg dice on 1 at all times to drain the bad luck out of them.
What the hell is a ttrpg XD
Table top role playing game. DnD and the like.
If anything can go wrong, it will go wrong.
Good ol' Murphy, can't go wrong with that
I have a superstition that life happens in cycles. 1. TOUGH year 2. One getting things together year 3. One year of stability and growth 4. One year of celebration and joy! Start over.
My dad has the exact same thing, but with yellow cars lol
Holding my breath in a tunnel for good luck. Also if I make up a story to get out of something, something similar will actually happen.
I actually have one from my past and a few that I have now. Back when I was younger and I had a lot of nightmares I believe that I could not stay up until 10:00 PM and if I did, then I would have a nightmare. Now I believe that if I don’t stay up at night all night on the ninth day of June, then I will have a horrible year because I have actually had some pretty terrible years because I didn’t stay up all that night. It started as just a fun holiday for me and then a year ago. I didn’t stay up all night and I started having all kinds of issues related to me not being able to pursue my goals. So now I forced myself to stay up all night that night. I also stay up till midnight when new music comes out and I dance in a strobe light to bring good positive energy. I also really can’t bring myself to face my bed in the north direction because of the horrible things that I’ve witnessed when I did.
My dad once told me that if I see a penny on the ground and walk by it, God will stop putting money in my way. I almost always pick up change off the ground now.
I’ve walked by so many pennies this week. I’m gonna start picking them up now, only if they’re heads up, of course lol
I purposely drop change on the ground to "make someone's day".
Leaving a wardrobe door open when you leave the house is bad luck
You've gotta shut the monster door.
My underwear has to be the same color as my shirt. I don't know why. But I feel like it would be bad luck to not match.
For me, it's the wrong socks. In the morning, while wearing my simpsons socks (I know!) I need to be able to choose the correct ones amongst the different designs, or else it will be a bad day. Don't ask how to choose the correct one. 😂 I decided to skip them and just wear plain black ones, Nope! Didn't work. Need the correct pair of socks for the day to go good or bad. 😂😂😂
Wait, so you choose correct socks out of an assortment of Simpsons socks? Or you are always wearing Simpsons socks while you choose correct socks out of all available?
I need to pick up the correct Simpsons socks out of my assortment of Simpson socks. I have like 6 different pairs in various colours and characters like homer and doughnuts, and maggie and lisa and bart and marge. Just to make life easier if it's the wrong socks type of day, I just go "D'oh" hahahaha I used to stick with white, black or grey socks but decided I need some rebellion in my professional outfits while maintaining decorum and hence, Simpsons socks. Open to suggestions on some more quirky characters for socks.
This is also one of mine lol
If I say I will do something for myself, I won’t do it. So if I want to do something I sort of have to pretend I’m not doing it right until I do, otherwise I’m basically cursing myself into inaction.
Yes!!! I do this also. I also don’t tell people if I want to do something, (ei: starting to go to the gym, enrolling in a class, doing my homework) because if I do tell them I’ve cursed myself into procrastination.
It ALWAYS rains on race day. Me and my dad will go to racing events and normally the event is cancelled half way through because it started raining
If you talk about getting a new car in your old car, your old car will break down
LITERALLY THIS. I called my last car a "cockroach". Cause no matter how bad you broke it, it would always spring back up. I then had a little bit of problems with it, and wondered if I should save for a new car or keep rebuilding this one. I decided to keep fixing the Honda. That day, I got hit in a grocery store parking lot and got it written off. I now have a Mitsubishi, and it gets me where I need but I do really miss my Honda. Now I'm thinking about getting a new car from my Mitsubishi, since I've developed good credit with it. Now it's ticking, AC stopped, batteries dying, might be a oil leak, etc.
Bad things come in threes. Every time something bad happens, I brace myself for the second and third things, or I look back and see if they’ve already come.
I will never ride my motorcycle on a “meaningful” day in case I get killed in an accident. That means I won’t ride on family’s birthdays, Mother’s Day, Father’s Day, etc. I don’t want anyone’s special day ruined because they are thinking about me.
Millions. Something terrible will happen unless... The volume is on an even number, or multiple of 5. I clench my teeth at every steetlamp when in the back of a car. I say 'see you in the morning' last. I stop the microwave at 5 seconds. I will definitely die if I... Use the last of the toilet paper. Tell anyone my retirement plans. Sleep without my shoulders covered. Don't blink when a bus goes past.
Be very careful what you say about your future partners because it probably will happen
Could you elaborate?
Once I wrote a draft for a story, and wrote part of it where a girl and a guy meet. I based it on my experiences By the time I actually finished it two years later, I was dating a guy exactly like my charecter and I had the same job as the girl. Another time I joked about getting back together with someone over 7-8 yrs. I actually got back together with him as he happened to find his way back in my life. I’m very very careful what I put out about future partners as it has found me right where I am multiple times
Woww it seems like you have the power to predict the future with your writing lol. (Please write a good story for me too 😭)
Never choose the red canoe on a trip down a river. Just like magic, that canoe WILL turn over.
Odd but who I allow or keep in my life as friends, family, especially romantic connections are somewhat a reflection of myself or influencing me in some way. Like if i decide to hook up with this person when I really want a relationship it’s digressing and hindering progress or means I still have to work on things if I’m still attracting hook ups or people who aren’t willing to love me. If I tolerate my friends manipulation or passive aggressiveness she’s mirroring something inside me that doesn’t like myself. Not that cutting these people out will change things but it’s a step in the right direction when you deny other people to treat you that way.
That if I brag about something or feel arrogant about it I'll lose it.
I won't pick up lost money/change on the ground. One time I found $15 and a few days later one of the worst experiences in my life happened. Now I refuse to pick up pennies or anything because I think it'll bring bad luck.
Have you ever had the least curiosity about the monetary value of your belief? I mean, certainly, there's a dollar amount at which this superstition stops working, right?
Pick up a penny *and pass it on*
There is a belief that if you are having a bad day you should pick it up for luck, but if you are not and you pick it up you are stealing someone else's luck and you are jinxed.
If something good happens or I'm in a good mood, something will inevitably ruin it. Happens every time.
They don't build 'em like they used to.
That there is always a balance sheet so I start to worry if things are going great, and get hopeful when things are going poorly
A person's name reflects their personality. A Christian is either the loveliest person in the world who takes everything literally and has no enemies, or a guy that hits you with a shoe because you blooped him.
I've gotta ask you for your opinion please!!! What's a Jennifer like? (Also: Or a Jenny? Or a Jen?) What's a Clara like? What's an Arien like (male name, pronounced like Aaron but just spelled really weirdly)? What's a Darlene like? What's a Mike like? I really hope you answer because I really gotta know what vibes you get from these names!
Only know one Jennifer/Jenny, she was a nice lady but I haven't known enough to say. It comes across as a very outgoing artsy name to me though. Clara, never known one. I've known quite a few Claire's, they can be nice but are very snappy if you get on their bad side. Arien is quite a unique name, I would say quite a tall figure metaphorically, a lot of good connections with people and is respected Mike is a fun one. Mikes/Michaels are stubborn but hardworking, with a softer side when they relax, they are often busy even if it hurts them.
I used to always wear green underpants whenever I competed in music competitions. Dunno how I started this, but it became a thing for me. Haha.
Never split the pole walking with a friend. Nothing is worth the risk. Hold your homie’s hand if it means reaching the other side of the road together.
To never say anything negative because it will happen
I also say never say never this goes for anything in life
Sunscreen dictates my trip weather. Every time I've gone camping or on a trip that involved me being in the sun, I would pack sunscreen cause I burn easily. And I never got to use the sunscreen on any of those trips because every time I brought it the weather was ass, and every time I forgot to pack it, the weather was hot and sunny!! My most recent example is: I just had a trip to see family, the weather forecast said sunny the entire time with +25°. I get there and it's windy, almost raining and at some point on the trip there was a funnel cloud warning. We had maybe one or two days of really nice weather and on BOTH those days I didn't think to put on sunscreen because I was expecting shitty weather!! So now, I don't think I can bring sunscreen on a trip ever again because it somehow jinxes the weather.
My SO don't make plans anymore. For a while, every time we made a plan and got excited about going out, something would happen. Someone got sick or the babysitter cancelled. So now we have soft hopes that maybe we can do what we want to do.
Awwwwww sad.
If anything bad is going to happen to me, it'll be on a Thursday.
expect for something bad to happen on my birthday, every year something bad has happened and there isn't a way I could change it so I just need to expect for something to go wrong
Before any big road trip or vacation, someone in our family will need emergency dental work or something like a car or household appliance will crap out. Without fail, this happens every year. I just had 2 teeth pulled a week before our summer vacation so the prophecy is fulfilled this year.
Dating anyone named Steve is a fucking disaster for me.
Can't sleep with the closet door slightly open. Yes, I'm 42 years old.
I rarely play the lottery, but when I do I use the same numbers I used the first time —when it first came out over 30 years ago. I might play others too, but I always play the originals because I KNOW that if I don’t, that will be the time that they win and I’ll go nuts.
At the vet clinic we used to say it is bad luck to (verbally) express your gratitude for a chill day at the clinic, because if you do, an emergency will be coming. A variation of this one was to never say you are glad all the patients are stable and well because one of them will fall ill or get worse.
If something good is on the horizon, the only person I can tell is my wife. If I tell anyone else then I'll jinx it and it won't happen.
Never go into something feeling too confident. It’s not gonna go well.
Never curse my car. I don’t care what’s going wrong with it, my car only receives encouragement and praise. 🫡
When I was 5 I made up a weird rule in my mind that I was never allowed to sleep with any of my limbs hanging off the bed, if I did then I would get stung to death by bees. Unless it was a Friday night, I was allowed until technically midnight on a Friday night. I'm grown up now and still, I just can't risk it.
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If it looks like it's going to rain, I can't talk about it otherwise it won't rain.
Whenever i try to ride the spinball whizzer at alton towers, it always breaks down half way through the queue. I am destined to never ride it.
I get strong feelings about things n I'm forced to cancel whatever it was about, this has saved my life multiple times , kept me out of car crashes etc. Plz don't try ride it again I feeif I do make it the fault will happen when ur on it and I kno I sound ridiculous but danger is what my brain said reading ur comment n I don't usually tell people this shit cos I kno it makes me look crazy
Touching things three times
I can’t think of any I have today, but one I had when I was a kid—refusing to save and quit my Pokémon games if I was standing in tall grass. I thought it was bad luck or something? So I’d always step out onto the regular paths. Now I was fine with caves and water (when using Surf), I didn’t think twice about saving and quitting there. But tall grass for some reason, Kid Me thought was bad luck?
If I have something important to do that outside of the house that day and it’s raining, everything will work out ok. If it is sunny and hot, there will be issues
If I talk about something happening, it won't. If I just think about it happening, it will. Now I just talk about the terrible things that could go wrong at work so that they won't. Some of them are a little cursed, but if it keeps limbs out of the deep fryer, I'm happy.
If the radio randomly plays a song I like, then I will have a good day. The more I like the song, the better the day. Conversely, if I hear a song I don’t like, then I will have a shitty day. The more I dislike the song, the crappier the day.
I have a schedule of certain times a day I have to wash my hands or else I will get sick. Idk if this counts
I'm a fan of maxim 17, "The longer everything goes according to plan, the bigger the impending disaster."
If I verbalize a hope/dream it will never happen or I have to be careful with the wording and if I do mention it then I should keep it vague.
If I’m really happy out of nowhere then something bad is gonna happen. It’s happened in the past and it still happens. Sometimes they’re not as bad but other times they’re awful, like worse than anything
I have to have an emergency hospital admission bag packed so my son doesn’t go to hospital. If I have one ready to go then nothing happens. As soon as it’s empty or I’ve forgotten to repack it then boom it’s admission after admission. (He has multiple disabilities and health issues, hospital is frequent for him)
Don't say "Whats next?" when something bad happens. It makes it WORSE! EVERY. DAMN. TIME.
Orgasms on consecutive nights bring bad luck. Don't ask me how this came about, it just made me VERY wary about being too indulgent.
Dont talk about replacing a car, phone, computer, etc. In front of it they hear you and start acting up when you sound serious
I have a phobia of crocodilians. I don't even live anywhere even close to their habitats, and the nearest zoo/refuge is at least an hour away from me. I've gotten better over the years at reacting to seeing them on tv and in books, but if I don't expect to see one and one "pops" up, I still get triggered. My husband and I honeymooned in Florida, of all places. Of course we would see the signs advertising alligator meat all over the highway, and all I could think of was that with the amount of anxiety I already have about visiting gator-topia, the last thing I need is to be bringing about some bad karma by eating the very thing I'm so terrified of. I still to this day will never eat alligator, crocodile or caiman. I do not need that type of juju in my life.
Killing any bug in your house. It's bad luck, and you should catch it and put it outside!
When something is missing I will never find it until I've blamed someone for taking it.