the “evil” eye syndrome

As far as i know,those of us who are a part of an Indian family would have definitely heard this term “evil” eye..

WikiPedia defines evil eye as ” a look that is superstitiously believed by many cultures to be able to cause injury or bad luck for the person at whom it is directed for reasons of envy or dislike. The term also refers to the power attributed to certain persons of inflicting injury or bad luck by such an envious or ill-wishing look”

In my family,as modern/traditional we may be in everything else-in this, we are downright conservative We completely,completely believe the existence of the evil eye and its ill effects..

Now,this is not something i would have ever thought of, as a belief,that  i would go by-however instances have actually forced me to believe in them..strange occurences..could even be on the most mundane things..Not necessarily on huge huge things..could even be something silly someone commenting on my eye and my having continous eye pain the following two weeks for no apparent.Whatever i have mentioned here is obviously not just a one off thing..i just chose to mention this as it involved me and a certain X ..However there are SO many more circumstances that have actually made me sit up and believe in this concept…Call me old fashioned or whatever but this is really something that i have grown to believe in now..:)

And why am I discussing this even ,you ask?

Well,last week for no apparent reason after a great long weekend the first two days of which were spent in good old shopping  with a sister who had come from the US on a short visit and my sister who lives here.Imagine 3 girls going just about everywhere LOADS and LOADS of fun the next two days were also spent in similar fashion albeit with a different person

Now,following this amazing weekend i end up with a very odd problem of a sore heel. Infact sore is not so much the word even that i could use to describe it.More like, a huge muscle inflammation.Initially i dismissed it as a small problem and did not even bother with a doc consultation and went to work as usual on Monday.

Halfway through my day and i realize that i am absolutely unable to walk without a prounounced limp and a painful leg

a scan and a doc consultation later,i am told that it is a muscle inflammation -some tendon problem.

And the reason for this post is that the entire family has decided that all this is because of the “evil eye”..Previously i would have definitely denied the existence of such things ,however  these days i am more inclined to believe ..especially after all the pain that i’m going through this week..My logical mind tried telling me that i might have strained my feet by over-walking(if there can be even be such a thing)..But,THAT is so not true i mean,whatever walking i did is nothing out-of-the-ordinary ..So yes,i ‘d definitely say that i am more inclined to believe these things nowadays..

how about you???Do you believe in such things?

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