The so-called-cursed 08/08/08?Bah,superstitions!

Ever since I was a kid,I wasn't the slightest bit superstitious.Coming from an Indian family,it is sort of peculiar not to be superstitious.My Mother has always taken unnatural events quite seriously and I was always frowned upon for not taking such kind of abnormal predicaments seriously.For example,walking under a ladder has always been considered,to bring bad luck by many people.When I heard about this mumbo-jumbo for the first time,I couldn't resist myself from going on a search for random ladders to walk under from.This I did when I was in my 4th grade,being naive,ignorant and alike,I began my quest of walking under ladders whenever I spotted one just to see what can really happen.Nothing happened,nothing ever did for the rest of that year,maybe lots of unknown people died on the day I set off for my little adventure,but that wouldn't really affect me now would it?

Many years have passed by,along with my proving-superstitions-wrong-scenarios,I had had almost done everything from breaking a mirror to letting a black cat walk in-front of me and yet nothing worth noticing ever happened?Why?Or maybe because superstitious voodoo is simply intriguing in books and to scare your feeble minded folks for self morbid amusement?Of course,our superstitious beliefs are just the icing on the cake.Where the cake being the prophecies made by mad French apothecaries and alike,to which people have made themselves fond of for over 400 years,is it because many people are just too easy to be fooled that such things have become so famous?

A handful of religious factions and similar seemed to believe and tried to infuse the theory of "The end of the world" by the date 06/06/06,to the rest of the world,just because some lunatics believe that the number '666' is the symbol of the devil doesn't give them the right to wrongfully play with the fickle minded people living on this planet,it simply leads to mindless chaos and havoc.But,in the end,the year '2006' too went on to be nothing special or diverse.In my present days,I don't really seem to care about unexplainable beliefs,I am just too busy trying to make my life good and decent,like any other day 08/08/08 had arrived,I ignored my mother's warnings and I went on with my usual schedule of attending college,eating my lunch,making plans for the weekend,etc.In case,people don't know what's 08/08/08,it's considered to be a very bad day for everyone,as mentioned by our so many well-to-do astrologers on the box and all of us were adviced by the media to stay at home to prevent any kind of misfortune.As usual,I never gave heed to such nonsense as ever and carried on to climb a 'RTC' bus to college,I had fallen asleep in the bus till the time I reached college,I was happy then,since I had a very peaceful dream on the way.Nothing could've ruined this day for me or could it?Anyhow I got down the bus and walked up to my class room and was reading a book.Then,I realized I had to call up a bunch of friends to tell them about some upcoming gaming tournament,but the only problem was I had lost my phone in the bus for reasons unknown,since I had zipped pockets,I couldn't have lost it,Alas!!My pocket had a major tear in it,which it had received on the bus too,which was big enough to lose a fat ass phone.Disappointed,after college hours,I began my journey back home.

After I reached home,I thought to myself,bleh,things could've been worse,so let's just take it easy.But,my nightmare had just begun.During the same day,I had burnt the food completely which I was cooking for the family,I had dropped a bottle of milk and had to go through the pain of cleaning the floor and making sure to have it stench-free.If that wasn't bad,later that afternoon,the house phone rang,only to deliver a message that one of my cousin's had a bad road accident and she has been admitted at 'Mahaveer Hospital',though I don't like her much,things were turning from bad to worse in no time.Before,my family and I tried to depart for the hospital,it began raining to the point where Hyderabad itself had become an underwater city!!So,we had to stay home and feel guilty about the fact that we couldn't help my cousin's situation.After having a bad day,the night wasn't OK either.An uncle of whom I am fond of,had informed my family via telephone,that now he is a victim of lung cancer and would be undergoing diagnosis for an unpredictable treatment for his inevitable death or for his unlikely survival.

The clock struck 12,and it was goodbye 08/08/08,while I was looking back on what happened on the preceding day,many thoughts flooded my mind,was 08/08/08 really a cursed day?Did I commit a terrible mistake by not listening to my mother?Or was it just a coincidence?Did the phone companies play a heinous joke on me?Were the the bizarre prophets right all this time?Or just maybe,I had a really bad nightmare?But,true nightmares don't disappear when we wake up,they disappear when we die!So,with all these fucked up thoughts in my head,I woke up the next day,with a smile upon my face and with a thought in my head."Hey!!!Things could've been worse.Right?"And our journey continues.........