SUPERSTITION

Season 2 Episode 21
Original Air Date: 19 March 2006

Narrated By Dr. Meredith Grey:

My college campus has a magic statue. It’s a long standing tradition for students to rub its nose for good luck. My freshman roommate really believed in the statue’s power and insisted on visiting to rub its nose before every exam. Studying might have been a better idea. She lucked out in sophomore year.

But the fact is we all have little superstitious things that we do. If it’s not believing in statues, it’s avoiding sidewalk cracks or always putting our left shoe on first …Knock on wood, ‘step on a crack, break your mother’s back’…The last thing we want to do is offend the gods.

Superstition lies in the space between what we can control and what we can’t. Find a penny, pick it up and all day long you’ll have good luck. No one wants to pass up a chance for good luck. But does saying it 33 times, really help?

Is anyone really listening?
And if no-one’s listening, why do we bother doing those strange things at all?
We rely on superstitions, because we’re smart enough to know we don’t have all the answers.
And that life works in mysterious ways.

Don’t diss the juju. From wherever it comes.