Entry 3-Superstitious

Here we go for the third entry for my task is all about superstition. Roger Sperry said once that our brain have two atmosphere which is right brain hemisphere and left brain hemisphere. Then I understand why a lecturer of mine gives me this task. I have to give the thinking of right brain which I have to be emphatic to other’s concept of right and wrong as the basis of one’s reality. In other word, it is interpersonal skills which I have to project myself in another side of view. While for the left brain thinking I have to be in tune with only one’s very own concept of right and wrong as the basis of one’s reality or to put it more simply it just consider my own view only. Well my opinion for both left and right will be thinking about the superstition that I have chose. Not one, but two superstitious that I will be emphatic and criticize. The superstition that I chose would be for pregnancy women. I am interested to the saying and I chose to take it as my work and to share and with my reader especially my lecturer. It is not because I want to be pregnant as my friends told me because I love baby so much. Nonsense! This is not the time yet, dear friends. Now, let’s begin with my thought or judgment for these things. 

“It is believed whatever affects mother’s mind will also affect the baby. If the mother cries a lot, then the baby will always have a sour face and always cry” 

I have got the message! It is from my right brain. Well it says be emphatic! Let’s see why a father to be create this kind of saying and make a mother to be believe this. Indeed, I do not even know who create this saying but in this is just in my point of view and according to the logical thinking. Maybe this saying is right because the baby is in the mother’s womb and whatever the mother did will be follow by the baby. For instance, my mother told me that I am quite good in English because while she was carrying me inside her, she was teaching and always read English books and always plays with English language. She is an English teacher indeed. Then, when I arrived in this world, my mother kept teaching. Is it making any sense?? For me absolutely yes! Other emphatic words would be the emotional state of pregnant women is important and that is why they should stay as much as possible. Well, let’s look from the left brain thinking. From the logical thinking, I am criticizing this! How come the baby will always cry if the mother did the same thing? The baby knows nothing about the outside world. If the mother talk, it is possible for the baby to hear but the baby do not understand even a word indeed. Then the same goes with the cries, the baby only cries when he or she turns up in this world. Crying is normal for the baby because it shows if the baby wants something from the mother. It do not related to the mother while the mother carrying the baby. The baby cry asking for something, the baby cannot talk yet right?? So, the only way for the baby to communicate is by crying. Move on to the second superstitious.

“To protect the unborn baby from evil spirits, pregnant women are advised to place a knife under their bed” 

I heard screaming in my head. Right brain and left brain fighting over to give an opinion to me. Guys, Stop it! I will write every single opinion. Haha..Just release my tense while writing this task. Back to the story, the emphatic words for this saying would be the knife would be the saviour for the mother and the unborn baby. Well, maybe the evil spirits afraid of the knife and run away from disturbing or taking the baby away. I kept asking myself why under the mother to be bed?? Then I got this, evil spirits will disturb pregnant women while they are sleeping. So, I think that is the reason why a pregnant woman has to place a knife under their bed. Progressing to the next opinion which is the criticize side. I would like to say that this particular saying is nonsense! We should not believe this kind of saying because it against our religion. There is such thing like evil spirit, but we should not believe this. In fact we should pray to Allah to make sure that the unborn baby is saved and protected. Only Allah can give ensure the safety of the mother to be and the unborn baby. The knife will only harm the safety of the pregnant women. The knife can harm the pregnant women as the knife is sharp. The mother to be would tend to be hurt by the knife.

In a conclusion, superstitious is not something that you can believe it for granted. Investigate the background of it before you ended up like blindly follow it or else it will harm you.