Just Kristin

I am not a very super­sti­tious per­son. If I can find a rea­son to honor a super­sti­tion, like leav­ing a found penny if it is “tails-up” (in which case I even turn it “heads-up” for the next finder to remind myself to share with every­one), I usu­ally adopt it as a habit. For the most part, though, I do not believe in curses or the like.

Some­times, though, I have to admit that I worry a bit. If things that I have touched or been part of go sour for some­one — a bro­ken rela­tion­ship, a phone lost after call­ing me, a traf­fic ticket rec’d when I was present, etc. — and when that per­son believes in their own bad luck or for­tune or rela­tion­ship with God or what­ever, I can’t help but catch­ing their worry, can’t help but won­der if some­how I am some­how a har­bin­ger of bad juju, as it were. Can this be exorcised?