Today’s Friday the thirteenth. Approximately 15 days before February ends.

Oops. I didn’t post so I could be emotional.
Let me start my real post.

Friday the thirteenth.

Ever since I was a kid, people would say that bad luck is very common on that day.
Does anybody believe it anymore? Get over it. People are just too superstitious. I think they’re letting some saying/belief take over their lives in some way or another. But I do admit that when I was a kid, I did believe it. But now… no.

If I remember correctly, Friday the thirteenth isn’t that bad. There was a TV program that showed how the crime and accident rates lowered because of this date. AWESOME. XD

I found in some website the origin of Friday the Thirteenth.

The reasons why Friday came to be regarded as a day of bad luck have been obscured by the mists of time — some of the more common theories link it to a significant event in Christian tradition said to have taken place on Friday, such as the Crucifixion, Eve’s offering the apple to Adam in the Garden of Eden, the beginning of the Great Flood, or the confusion at the Tower of Babel. Chaucer alluded to Friday as a day on which bad things seemed to happen in the Canterbury Tales as far back as the late 14th century (”And on a Friday fell all this mischance”), but references to Friday as a day connected with ill luck generally start to show up in Western literature around the mid-17th century:

* “Now Friday came, you old wives say, Of all the week’s the unluckiest day.” (1656)

From the early 19th century onward, examples abound of Friday’s being considered a bad day for all sorts of ordinary tasks, from writing letters to conducting business and receiving medical treatment:

* “I knew another poor woman, who lost half her time in waiting for lucky days, and made it a rule never to . . . write a letter on business . . . on a Friday — so her business was never done, and her fortune suffered accordingly.” (1804)

* “There are still a few respectable tradesmen and merchants who will not transact business, or be bled, or take physic, on a Friday, because it is an unlucky day.” (1831)

Friday was also said to be a particularly unlucky day on which to undertake anything that represented a beginning or the start of a new venture, thus we find references to all of the following activities as endeavors best avoided on Fridays:

* Needleworking: “I knew an old lady who, if she had nearly completed a piece of needlework on a Thursday, would put it aside unfinished, and set a few stitches in her next undertaking, that she might not be obliged either to begin the new task on Friday or to remain idle for a day.” (1883)

* Harvesting: “My father once decided to start harvest on a Friday, and men went out on the Thursday evening, and, unpaid, cut along one side of the first field with their scythes, in order to dodge the malign fates which a Friday start would begin.” (1933)

* Laying the keel of, or launching, a ship: “Fisherman would have great misgivings about laying the keel of a new boat on Friday, as well as launching one on that day.” (1885)

* Beginning a sea voyage: “Sailors are many of them superstitious . . . A voyage begun [on a Friday] is sure to be an unfortunate one.” (1823)

* Beginning a journey: “I knew another poor woman, who . . . made it a rule never to . . . set out on a journey on a Friday.” (1804)

* Giving birth: “A child born on a Friday is doomed to misfortune.” (1846)

* Getting married: “As to Friday, a couple married on that day are doomed to a cat-and-dog life.” (1879)

* Recovering from illness: “If you have been ill, don’t get up for the first time on a Friday.” (1923)

* Hearing news: “If you hear anything new on a Friday, it gives you another wrinkle on your face, and adds a year to your age.” (1883)

* Moving: “Don’t move on a Friday, or you won’t stay there very long.” (1982)

* Starting a new job: “Servants who go into their situations on Friday, never go to stay.” (1923)

In some cases, Good Friday (the Friday before Easter) was regarded as an exception or ‘antidote’ to the bad luck usually associated with Friday beginnings:

* “Notwithstanding the prejudice against sailing on a Friday . . . most of the pleasure-boats . . . make their first voyage for the season on Good Friday.” (1857)

* “It was accounted unlucky for a child to be born on a Friday, unless it happened to be Good Friday, when the event was counterbalanced by the sanctity of the day.” (1870)

source: http://www.snopes.com/luck/friday13.asp

So I guess it’s really up to us whether we should believe it or not.