Friday, August 13, 2010

Friday the 13th, oooooooooooo, oooooooooooo, who's afraid of this date?

Well you should be!
I’m joshing you; the fear of Triskaidekaphobia is a real problem for some people.
Personally, I have mixed emotions since good and bad things for me have occurred on Friday the 13th.
Shall I elaborate?
Hurricane Charley arrived six years ago on a Friday the 13th and destroyed our home and I wrote about just what happened on that infamous day on last year’s fifth anniversary, if interested you can access my Blog from that date by copying and pasting this link I think: http://tobi-adayinthelife.blogspot.com/2009/08/friday-august-13-2004.html

My niece died on October 13. 2006, consequently the same day I had, had an MRI for my MS and the results from that, at that time I was told that my MS was stable, boy has that ever changed! And today I was able to get my first of three Solu-Medrol infusions for my optic neuritis; which could be considered either good or bad. So I am torn with the date’s power of that number and its occurrence on that day of the week.
Most will argue it is only a day of the week and a number!
And that is so true… or is it?
Below is another site that you might want to try to find out all the reasons that fairly sane people believe the date is to be feared, well if not a scary date but one to take in with much respect.
Copy and paste this info if you dare to see some logically or maybe not so logical reasons for this date’s notorious reputation: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triskaidekaphobia
Most of us just go about our business all day long without regard of what each numerical date may mean in the broader sense, in the bigger picture, or call it the scheme of things…
We as human beings generally just go through life with knowing birth dates, anniversaries, holidays and the like, but some dates are not that important and as many would have you believe just another day!
Why September eleventh 2001 was just another day to most until that horrendous infamous happening occurred of the Twin Towers, Pentagon and PA and nearly three thousand lives were taken, December seventh, the day Pearl Harbor was hit, comes to mind and I bet that was just another day too at one time, why probably on December sixth.
You see my point is that unless we personally can relate to a specific date it means nothing in the grander scale of life itself. Sorry for such ghastly emotional examples, but you know me…
And so I have come to respect people’s reasoning of what gives them chills of remembrances good or bad, and interestingly enough that’s just another commonality of human nature, and so my sociology experiment goes on…
And yes, I do have an awful lot of time of my hands.
In my opinion observations, by answers to questions that I have posed to people, also when my eyes work better just watching the world at large gives way to many diagnoses of the ids of persons in this generation, and I do so love to try and learn…for when we stop that energy we become brain dead!
On these weighty concepts, who knows it could be those heavy doses of steroids causing all this!
And again I have asked too many questions of a dear old friend, but she being the gem that she is answered them for me, and for that I am sorry but thankful.
And another thank you goes out to the lovely woman who at one time I was able to call my editor for I was fortunate to have her edit my By-lines that I wrote way back for the local newspaper and she is now one of my FB friends and has offered to edit this…nah that would be too presumptuous of me and who reads this drivel anyway! LOL!
Sorry, my faux pas, but you all know me by now… my followers and avid readers who remain anonymous! LOL
Now back to a wee bit of silly that felt good! And so, happy night to all and to all count those blessings and we will too

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