Posted by Dinah on June 25, 2007, at 23:28:46
That if you complain about something or wish for something, the fates will overhear and grant your wish or fix what you complained about in a way that is really the last thing you'd actually want?
I thought it was a reasonably common belief, but my therapist thinks it's exceedingly odd.
So when I was little and was crying that I wanted a puppy and my mom wouldn't let me have another one, and then my other dog died, it was the fates "granting" my wish in a way that made me sorry I ever wished it.
Or when I was in college and hadn't studied for a test, and was trying to last minute cram when I fell asleep over my books only to wake up to hear it had flooded, and school was cancelled, it was all my fault?
So now whenever I wish or hope or complain about something, I have to also say all of the things I wouldn't want to happen so that I sound like the disclaimer on a car commercial.
Is that as weird as my therapist thinks?
I mean, of course I know there's no such thing. But of course I really know that there is such a thing.
Common belief or OCD?
poster:Dinah
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