Fearful of the number 13, are we? Things have power only if you allow them to, and a day like today, Friday the 13th, is like any other day to me. Well, that's not entirely true...I like Fridays better than I like Mondays, and especially Fridays that are pay-days!
Well, here are a couple of words that you are all on your own to pronounce...per the title, triskaidekaphobia is the fear of the number 13, of course...but what about the fear of a Friday the 13th in particular? These were new to me....paraskavedekatriaphobia
friggatriskaidekaphobia
And in digging even deeper into where this superstition came from, there is virtually no hard evidence that the particular "Friday the 13th" ideology existed prior to 1900. Plenty of 'unlucky' things happened on Fridays that were also 13s back through ye olde ages, but the association of the two as one idea is, well, just not substantiated.
One factoid I saw said some 17 million people actually do fear Friday the 13th...that is a LOT of wasted energy and time, sad to say. We can never lose sight of the immense power Thoughts have in creating our own Realities...when you so focus on something, you invariably draw that energy to you.
Just in case you want to know, July of this year will have another Friday the 13th...and then we won't see another one until June of 2008. There, now you can sleep better at night...unless you want to worry about that!
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