Do You Still Believe in Superstitions?

Superstitions have been passed down from generation to generation and have been ingrained into the tradition of everyone. If you will be asking some people here in the Philippines, for sure one or two may be saying that they still believe in such.

Growing up, I had encountered multiple superstitions from my parents, relatives, and even strangers.

I always visit the wet market and have interactions with the vendors. Since I frequently go there early in the morning, more often than not I am their first customer for the day. They have this belief of "buena mano" at times I enjoy the treatment as they tend to be more attentive and happy with serving but there are times wherein I do not. I was called a "salty" customer by one of the regular shops that I frequently visit and guess what happened next. ( I made sure that I took a bath before going to the wet market after that scenario). I never went there to buy my goods and just bought my stuff elsewhere.

So last Sunday, after we went to eat in a local shop which I will share in the future heavy rain started to pour in our area. The terminal to where we should take our ride is quite far so we stayed in a small alleyway to keep ourselves dry.

In the alleyway, there's a salon that offers haircuts for kids that cost around 100 PHP around $2.00. Since Dyndyn is already 1 year old and we are there already we decided to have her hair done and also hope that the rain will stop after the session.

Contrary to what we are expecting she was calm during the process and the attendant in the salon was happy with how Dyndyn behaved.

She was quite a sweetheart!

As we are being interrogated by the attendant, she asked us if this is the first time that she got a haircut. We mentioned that yes it was her first and we are shocked that she didn't have any tantrums in the process. Welp, most of the time she only expresses or shows that she is irritated if she is at home.

Since it is her first we are asked to keep a few strands of her hair and then put them in a book. I am well familiar with that belief as my sister-in-law did that in her son. Strands were kept in a book that I own believing that the child will become smart and he is! He is getting excellent grades at school.

We just respectfully mentioned that we do not believe in such superstitions but still they insisted to keep them I just smiled and said it is okay. I am more into logical thinking so most of the time if someone will be saying something to me more often than not I might shrug them off.

If there's a scientific reason why not? This is what I am into.

One of the superstitions that I follow religiously is not sleeping or laying down if my stomach is full. They believe that it is bad for health if you practice such and my doctor also mentioned that I should not be doing it as I am experiencing issues with my stomach. Hyperacidity to be exact, and there may be a case wherein I may have acid reflux each time that I lay down with a full stomach.

So if you will be asking me if I believe in superstitions, I will say I do at times if there's a scientific backing. But if there's none I do not.