Now, like many who watched last night's opening Olympics ceremonies in China, I was impressed. It was a very beautiful and breathtaking display. It should be a great Olympics, but that doesn't encourage me to ignore the Chinese government's many human rights violations through the years or how it denies its people politcal and free speech freedoms many of us take for granted in this country.
Also I was puzzled by the people in China and around the world who believe that the date -- 8/8/08 -- would bring good fortune to the festivities. Some I heard even got married on the date for the same reason. Sounds like superstition to me.
More often than not I am baffled by the motivation of so called sane and rational
people. they even reduce marriage and love down to some superstitious game...Where's reason and rational thought?
last summer couples rushed to Vegas and other places to get married on 7/07/07 for luck..
seemed strange to me...so foolish that I had to write about it...
what were these people thinking? or were they? I also wonder how many of these couples are still together ...not too many I would guess...
it is like Stevie Wonder sang in his great song, "Superstition," "when you believe in things you don't understand/then you suffer/Supersition ain't the way...
I updated a poem I wrote then about 7/7/07 to fit the new date of superstitious nonsense.
GP
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8/8/08 -- The Bonds of Superstition
The lemmings.
The culturally controlled
rushed out to get married
on 8/8/08
convinced it would bring
them luck.
Luck?
It is never wise to be superstitious
about anything let alone
marriage.
All the luck in the world
can't save a bad marriage.
I wonder how many of these
people will still be together
by 8/8/09?
Only time will tell.
Luck has nothing to do with it.
George Pappas
Copyright 2008
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