Superstitions have never been a thing for me. This "Friday the 13th is bad luck" thing has always bothered me. What makes the 13th falling on a Friday so much worse than any other day of the week? Traditionally don't people LOVE Fridays? So even if you are not a fan of the number 13, wouldn't the fact that it falls on a Friday kind of "even the scales"?
"Monday the 13th"! Now that I could understand. Most people do not like Mondays and add in the bad luck notion of the number 13 this would make some sense. To just pick on Friday when it arbitrarily is associated with the number 13 seems not only unfair but nonsensical.
My mother always gets excited on Friday the 13th. She takes it to the other extreme, balking at any superstitions and almost tempting fate by trying to find ladders to walk under and black cats to cross her path. This I find just as silly. It's just another day of the week with a number of the day of that month associated with the purpose of keeping time straight. It holds no power, good or bad.
Throw in a full moon (or in the case of this past January 13, 2017, where the moon was one day past full but close enough for some) and people really go crazy. The last time a true full moon fell on a Friday the 13th was June 13, 2014, and the next will be August 13, 2049. (Huh, I will be 79! Interesting.) That will be a fun day to observe people - hope I remember it is happening.
It all comes back to my original question, why does Friday the 13th get such a bad rap? I am thinking we can collectively agree Mondays are worse and I propose that we, together, erase the stigma of Friday the 13th and give Monday the 13th crap for a while. Let's celebrate the next Friday the 13th instead of tiptoeing around thinking the sky is going to fall on us. We have time to prepare, the next one isn't until April 2018. Until then, enjoy black cats crossing your paths, taking shortcuts under ladders, and clean up that mess of a broken mirror with a shrug and a "things happen" attitude.
All my best to you and yours.
