Superstitions, A Derth: HoL 129

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Humans of Lagos

"My society is mythologized. Thriving on absurd superstitions.


For instance, on the one hand, when a passenger changes his mind about continuing on a journey, he'll be quick to associate it with God's way of keeping him from any negative eventuality that may happen to the car.

On the other hand, the remaining passengers will console themselves by saying that perhaps he's a carrier of ill luck that God removed from among them.

Although the rate at which accidents occur here due to bad roads and nonchalant driving is alarming, our superstition has nothing to do with prevalence of accidents.

So the question is why hasn't our superstition fetched us transformative society?"

© FERT, 2018

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