Tuesdays are bad luck

There are plenty of people who simply refuse to do a lot of significant tasks on a Tuesday. Its bad luck… something inauspicious about the day. Even if avoiding anything becomes a great inconvenience, they still stick with it. And when I’ve heard this so many times since my childhood, naturally though doubtful, I myself generally had a tendency to avoid any tasks on Tuesdays whenever I had a choice, just to be on the safer side 😉

I even remember once a year or so ago, I confronted a couple of my colleagues – more staunch believers of this rule. Its not that I was cynical, I was just looking for a more logical answer. One of them said he blindly accepted it, just to be on the safer side. The other was a bit more open for investigation – he said, hmm there must be some reason. Then I said – if you really think about it, time has no beginning or end. Its only we humans who have split it into concepts like days, hours, and minutes depending on the planet’s rotation, and then gone further to name each of these days. So when the entire thing is our own invention, so is the concept of one of them being unlucky, right? So if you really look at it, how can this unit of time possibly be different from any other?

He answered that this splitting of time and naming of days wasn’t done by just anybody. And especially the declaring of Tuesday as an inauspicious day – it wasn’t done by some whimsical layman. It would’ve certainly been done by some highly learned and knowledable people who had spent maybe their whole lifetime studying about astronomy, inter-planetary forces, etc. We don’t know even a fraction of what they knew, so then its safer to accept the things they say, unless we are willing to invest the time and energy in finding out all the things they knew to conclusively prove or disprove the theory.

He explained further – if one believed the whole world ultimately comes down to vibrations (which I do, though I dont try to infer anything further from it) then maybe these things could be explained from that theory – that some particular thing happens which causes bad vibrations to happen on Tuesdays compared to any other day. But my point was that with such abstract applications of the vibration theory, one could prove almost anything, even complete nonsense for example that untouchablity actually makes sense because people from some “low” caste “emit bad vibrations”.

Anyway it was just an open argument, neither of us really trying to prove anything, and we left it at that. We both agreed that ultimately it just comes down to what we are made to believe all the time.

So the doubt remained… anything important that’s started on a Tuesday is doomed to go all wrong. Probably just a silly superstition, but just to be safe – avoid anything on Tuesdays.

Only very recently, I happened to get to know my day of birth. I was really surprised – it was a Tuesday! The most important event of my life and it had to be on a Tuesday…! My whole life is gone…

But I felt it was conclusive evidence to disprove the theory once and for all. Because over time I’ve come to consider myself as among the most lucky people on the planet… not in terms of buying a lottery ticket that ends up winning millions of dollars, but in having realised that one has not that much of a need of such a thing at all [not that I’d mind 😉 ] – especially after being better able to appreciate the value of what one already has! 🙂