thinking out loud

I think that a lot of my love for superstition is the fact that it comes from observation. It's about being self aware, recognising patterns in your life, having the self-esteem to realise that you make things happen and are in some way responsible for things that night happen, and having the foresight to prevent/delay/change something that would otherwise be bad. I think that, although pretty much everyone nowadays believes so heavily on science and disregards it as a lifestyle, superstition hasn't necessarily lost it's place in the world just yet. I believe that it inherently comes from a good place; a place of wanting to make life the best-case-scenario. The avoidance of certain superstitions are to prevent bad fate, the positive superstitions are there to enhance life, and make you notice the good things that happen. It's not about blindly following a fake belief system, as it has been summed up to mean today: that generalisation of battiness and old-wives tales. I think that it is above that. It becomes about noting- translating your surroundings by recognising the thoughts in your head, categorising them, responding to them, and turning that into a pattern that will bring about good, in the best way. And that, i think, regardless of whether or not you believe in specific oral traditions, is something that we all can strive towards- a self aware lifestyle, embracing positivity.