Jagrik name – Subhojit Ghosh                                   

Cohort number – 1 (Bhagowanpur High School)

Task – (FD5SG2) – Identify five personal superstitions that you regularly follow/believe in and abstain from them for a week, with three testimonials to verify your act.

Experience-

The peer listed out five superstitions that he used to follow:

1. If a black cat crosses your path, it’s a bad omen.
2. Twitching of the eye is inauspicious.
3. Praying while seeing pair of common mynas will bring good luck.
4. Praying while seeing entellus (Hanuman).
5. Not to cut nails after sunset.

The peers abstain from them for a week as per the task. In the beginning, abstaining from following them was difficult as it was habitual but later the habit has changed.

1. He was afraid that if a black cat crosses his path and if he passes that, he will have all the bad luck. But one day, he dared to pass that without giving a second thought. He was afraid that something bad might happen with him but everything went fine. After this incident, he stopped in believing in this superstition.
2. He believed in the superstition that praying while seeing pair of common mynas will bring him good luck. But one day, even after he prayed while seeing pair of mynas, the day went very badly for him. Firstly, he had to face a surprise test in school in which he performed very badly. On his way back from school, he fell off his cycle and got hurt. Later he got a good scolding in his home. All these events compel him to not accept this superstition.
3. After knowing the actual reason behind the superstition “Not to cut nails after sunset”, he stopped believing in that.

Learning-

Being superstitious can affect our behavior and state of mind, influencing everything from our preparation and performance on a particular challenge. We have to stop believing in superstition and find out the actual reason behind it.

Challenges –

At first, he was afraid of the consequences of not following the superstitions but later he dared to not follow them and start learning the actual reasons behind them.