With a strong current of caffeine I sail,

Into the thoughts of my past, present and future. And I see the jet stream of life provide clouds of doubt, beliefs and amazement.

In fertile soil a seed is planted and will grow. Be it a tree of knowledge or a thorn bush, it doesn’t need much to flourish.

Daily writing prompt

Are you superstitious? ✅

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Clouds of Doubt

As a child a seed was planted in my mind, nurtured to perfection by eager older siblings testing my growing mind. I broke a mirror around age 7 or so. “Bad luck is in your future for the next seven years”. I heard this so often I believed it, simple as that. The result, I had bad luck. Everything I tried to do was a mishap, Accidents became a common thing and along with a bad case of psoriasis came stitches, grades slipping, focus fading and the inner belief that I was a broken cog in the machine of life.

Beliefs

As I grew older I became aware of the fact that seeds can grow only if they are attended to. With this knowledge I dared to buck the machine that portrayed such silly beliefs. I danced under ladders, intentionally stepped on cracks in the sidewalk and had two of the best pets I’ve ever owned, black cats. Superstitions became a thing of the past and the future was turning bright once again. I tested this theory in the early 80s on a rainy summer evening. I was wearing shorts and in a rainstorm I drunkenly climbed up a steel tower and screamed for lighting to strike, it never did.

Amazed

After that it became obvious to me that superstition was either a song by Stevie Wonder or a mountain range in Arizona. It had nothing to do with the way life turns out. Now here I sit closing in on 70 years and still barking loudly. It amazes me what we are taught to believe in in our younger daze of life.

We set goals and try to achieve them based on beliefs that were installed from an early age. Beat the beliefs, try new things and fail. Failing at something in life is not because you have bad luck, maybe it’s the timing or might it maybe be a lack of knowledge, I don’t have the answers but what I do have is amazement that anything is possible if you believe hard enough.Put your heart into believing in yourself, not some silly superstition.

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