What I Believed Yesterday is Different Than Today
When I was younger, I believed in a lot of things that I later found out to be either untrue or ridiculously childlike. I was raised in a family that originated from Africa to the Southern parts of the United States. All of my grandparents and great grandparents were born in Mississippi or Arkansas. For this reason, I was raised by a family of people that believes in superstitions. When I was younger, I could not comprehend why things happened certain ways. I asked questions and believed the answers that my elders gave me to be the truth. As I grew older, I realized that many of those answers were made up throughout history by people who did not understand the reasons certain things happened certain ways. Despite superstition still being accepted by many people around the world, superstition is best understood as an unproven belief that supernatural relationships or actions can cause certain consequences. Superstitious beliefs once was as natural to me as facts are to scientists, however I’ve grown up and learned to make rational decisions based on my own common sense. Now, superstitions are ridiculous, reduces implementation of everyday jobs and interests and distorts reality from truth. I want to share some of the superstitions that I believed as a child. Black cats crossing someone’s path, …show more content…
The person would have to make a decisions of whether to continue their path to work or backing up the car to reverse the belief that they will encounter bad luck if they neglect to do so. This scenario is an example of allowing superstitions to affect everyday life. I would think that a rational person would continue on to work but, there are many that will not do so and if they lose their job they will sum it up to the black cat gave them bad luck anyway. Or maybe even count back the years since the last time they broke a
When I was younger, I believed in a lot of things that I later found out to be either untrue or ridiculously childlike. I was raised in a family that originated from Africa to the Southern parts of the United States. All of my grandparents and great grandparents were born in Mississippi or Arkansas. For this reason, I was raised by a family of people that believes in superstitions. When I was younger, I could not comprehend why things happened certain ways. I asked questions and believed the answers that my elders gave me to be the truth. As I grew older, I realized that many of those answers were made up throughout history by people who did not understand the reasons certain things happened certain ways. Despite superstition still being accepted by many people around the world, superstition is best understood as an unproven belief that supernatural relationships or actions can cause certain consequences. Superstitious beliefs once was as natural to me as facts are to scientists, however I’ve grown up and learned to make rational decisions based on my own common sense. Now, superstitions are ridiculous, reduces implementation of everyday jobs and interests and distorts reality from truth. I want to share some of the superstitions that I believed as a child. Black cats crossing someone’s path, …show more content…
The person would have to make a decisions of whether to continue their path to work or backing up the car to reverse the belief that they will encounter bad luck if they neglect to do so. This scenario is an example of allowing superstitions to affect everyday life. I would think that a rational person would continue on to work but, there are many that will not do so and if they lose their job they will sum it up to the black cat gave them bad luck anyway. Or maybe even count back the years since the last time they broke a