Are you superstitious that it effects your life negatively?

[pacfan]

I read somewhere that many soldiers in Vietnam always stuck to their daily routines. Why? They feared something might happen to them when they strayed from their usual routines. I guess when we're insecure - or people who are insecure - (we) tend to maintian strict rountine in our daily lives. So being a bit superstitious is natural for us poor beings... but let's not forget, we aren't in Vietnam......

Good points. I hadn't though about that. It's probably why I write down a list of things to do each day and plan out my meal timetable. Subconciously I am insecure and at war. That may be so.

I've wondered in the past if superstition and OCD are distant ugly cousins. I had a short time in early teens where everything had to be done 7 times. Mostly everything. For the fear that if not "something bad would happen". It was rather debilitating and consumed massive amounts of time and function.

I guess many folks are silently fighting their little wars somewhere within. You might have seen those neatniks who have this unusual urge to put everything neatly in order; they just won't stop until it's done. These fellas are fighting a real war out there. It's kinda sad to think how a mind can trick a person into believing he's in a war zone when actually there's no bomb or bullets flying around...

[Beanz]

Neatnik :-)

[Master]

Are you superstitious that it effects your life negatively?

You mean like walking down the road trying to miss all the joins to save your mum and you end up with some walking disorder and a bad back in later life?

Tread on a crack, break your mothers back. remember that one?

Someone out there, at least one, must be walking around like a mixture of the Hunch back of Notre dame and John Wayne.

Yes I would try and not walk on cracks in the pavement which may have resulted in my bad knees.