We all live in a world of science and technology where we look for a reason or explanation for everything . Yet, there are so many things we do in life, which are beyond any kind of reason. One such thing is our belief in certain superstitions. Now, most of us deny about it outright, but secretly, we all believe in superstitions in one form or the other. For instance, a sports fan would never change the conditions surrounding him, if he thinks the team he is supporting, is supposedly doing well in a certain match, some of which are, not changing the channel even during commercial breaks, not taking a bio break and even to the extent of not watching the match altogether.
My introduction to superstitions and the adverse effects of not believing in them, happened when I was back in school. I used to ride a bicycle to school, along with a few of my friends. One day, when we were about to start, one of my friends happened to sneeze. Sneezing before starting anything is considered a bad omen. So, my friend suggested that I drink some water and wait a min before we start. We were already getting late, and I thought there was no point in doing all that stuff. On the way to school, a car sped away next to me, spilling some of the stagnate water on my uniform. If that was not enough, my bag was loosely hung from the carriage of the bicycle and it fell down soiling all the books. To top it all, a nail managed to get into my cycle’s tyre puncturing it. I was so annoyed with the series of events. Right then, my friend comes to me beaming with a wicked sense of joy, and says “I told you something like this would happen”. Though I argued then, that it had nothing to do with the sneeze, I have always tried not to be indifferent to the superstitions from then on.
If you think of it, superstitions are just one of the many means through which your mind fucks you. No matter how much you try to not correlate the consequences, if any, of not believing in a superstition, you always either end up being conscious of them or at least try to be on the safe side, by acknowledging them.
A couple of years ago, I came to know of this particular superstition related to the flickering of one’s eyelids. Supposedly, if your right eyelid flickers, something good is going to happen to you. Alternatively, if your left eyelid flickers, something bad is in the offing. I haven’t noticed this much, until sometime last year, my right eye started flickering. Now, the greedy self that I am, I was hoping atleast for a while for something interesting to happen. I don’t particularly remember anything out of usual happening to me, so I just ignored it. All was well until after a few months, when the tide turned and my left eye lid started flickering. Now I started telling myself that nothing wrong is going to happen, but my mind continues to fuck me over, trying to make me correlate anything remotely bad to it. So, to counter my mind with a good reason, I tried to find the actual cause for the twitch in the eyelids. As it turns out, it is caused by excessive caffeine, which is indeed true in my case. It also makes me think of our psychology in general: We never question the good things that happen to us. We only feel bad or have the ‘why me?’ question when things dont turn out in a way, we expect them to.
I feel my left eyelid flickering, oh wait, I didn’t even have any coffee today. Damn it!
i guess the world and life is large enough and complicated that we can connect any and all the dots successfully. OR simply ignore the event as coincidence.
Let us just call is protien deficiency and take some pills. And on the caffine part dont give it up if post your eyes start flickering together also. Doesnt make sense