Us Too here in the Philippines have a lot of superstitious beliefs. But because my father is a lawyer, they brought us up not believing any of them at all. So far, nothing bad happened to all of us by not following them.

Actually, our grandparents would tell us about the superstitious beliefs but my father would tell us they are of no scientific basis, so we should not believe them.

Actually from all those that you have enumerated the we , Filipinos have the same superstitious beliefs ;

1. Never watch their face in a broken mirror. ( The one I was using in putting make-up everyday before reporting to work for the last 2 years was broken. Nothng bad happened to me during those years, but lately I replaced it with a new one already)

2. When a black cat crosses the road while you are driving, it means bad luck. ( Hubby would still drive after the cat has crossed. He doesn’t believe it anyway, so nothing bad happens to him)

You are right my friend that superstition mentioned here might also be the beliefs of people around the world.These are also beliefs in Philippines and people tend to feel afraid seeing their face in a broken mirror and fear of having cup fallen and broken on the floor. It means something bad to mourn if a glass drops to the floor. Of course,m that drops because of carelessness and the person lacks focus.

My father, while we were growing up was a strict one. But in his strictness, we know that he truly loves us and is just being protective of us.

He would make us lie down facing the bench when he would whip us because we didn’t follow him or we are being stubborn or quarrel with anyone of us siblings.

We never go direct to him to ask for something. We do it through our mother who would tell him and he would let mother buy it for us. He was strict yet very loving to all of us and a good provider.

But all of us grew up to be God fearing, good citizens and kind women.

Maybe, had father not been strict to us, we would not have been given a good education. Yes, two of us have eloped in their 18’s but he made sure that despite that they also finished their studies.

All I can say is his discipline and strictness honed us to be good women.

But he was a good provider.

I’m currently on a strict diet right now but there are days that I cant help it but to cheat on my diet. Thanks for reminding me how discipline is so important. I’d rather suffer the pain of discipline than suffer in the pain of regretting that I failed my diet.

Yeah exactly some times or on most times , me also face issues like that, but at the end of the day what will triumph is lone discipline