Superstition

This week, as we continued to read Song of Solomon, my thoughts from the last blog post continued to linger in my mind. Are we really creatures of habit that seek the most comfortable and easiest way out? After some more pondering, I came to the same conclusion that, yes, we truly are. One thing that stood out the most to me while reading was the fact that Pilate had no navel. Because of this, "she had to leave" many of the places she lived when she was young (Morrison 144).

Back then, many people were very superstitious and thought that having no navel meant you weren't "born natural" (Morrison 143). I think this was mainly because science wasn't as advanced as it is now, and people wanted an explanation for why some people had no navels, so they just came up with the superstition. Nowadays, science is a lot more advanced, and explains a lot more things than it used to. However, many superstitions still exist today. For example, although I know that getting good test scores are based on how much you prepared and how much rest you got the night before, I still find myself praying to some unknown force to give me a good score and looking at car license plates for "168", a symbol of fortune and good luck in Chinese culture. This goes along with the idea that we always want to travel the most comfortable path in life. Even though we know that certain things are just myths or fake, some part of our brains still continue to believe it just in case it really is true, and it can't really hurt to try some of the old rituals and traditions for luck and happiness.