At my age, I’ve experienced many Friday the 13THs. It was during my high school days when I got to know the bad luck, that day brings. Filipinos by nature are superstitious, there are also other nationalities have the same superstitious belief.

The fear of Friday the 13th is called paraskavedekatriaphobia, a word derived from the concatenation of the Greek words Paraskeví (meaning Friday), and dekatreís (meaning thirteen), attached to phobía (meaning fear). The term is a specialized form of triskaidekaphobia, a simple phobia (fear) of the number thirteen appearing in any case.

Determining the origin and history of Friday the 13th bad luck is very hard since it is known that Jesus Christ died on Friday and the last supper consists of 13 persons where one of them died. Other than the movie, Friday the 13th, numerology states that number 13 is bad luck. This is the reason why buildings doesn’t have 13th floor.

When I first got to know Friday the 13th, of course from the movie and from my high school classmates, there are many things considered as bad luck happened to me. At first, I thought there are merely coincidence but when every time that day comes, unlucky days were always there. I guess, there were time that I suffer from paraskavedekatriaphobia when I fear of leaving home for that day.

Fear factor? There was a time that I had a scheduled long awaited appointment that was impossible to cancel. Although, I have doubt on myself on my presentation, I started to keep in mind that Friday the 13th is just like any other day. That day, everything came out right just as I wanted, I’ve closed the deal and with a bonus that I overcome my fear.

Everyone has to overcome the fear of the unlucky day. How can we do that if we stay at home on that day? From the time I’ve experienced the good luck of Friday the 13th… fear was gone already. There’s no such thing as Friday the 13th bad luck. The belief resides within ourselves. Be positive always.

Friday The 13th