Said the fool.

Said the fool to a friend,
"There's nothing I cannot do,
beneath the sky, above the earth,
between the air and sea."
Said the friend to the fool,
"You can do many things it's true,
and have been doing so since birth,
though it's not what you are, but ought be."

Irony

It occurs to me that the majority of people out there are superstitious. In fact, it is often those people who believe themselves to be fully rational, and not like "those other superstitious people" that tend to be perhaps more so than the rest. And the truth is, on some level, we all know that there are reasons to be so, to think that things happen that are not entirely fitting the rational bonds of nature, or perhaps there is some law or rule of things that transcends what science has thus far discovered.

Take the phrase, "knock on wood" for instance. How often is it that you, or someone that you have known say that things are going well, and then pop in this little phrase, sometimes even trying to find woodlike substances on which to knock. Some people think about it more than others when saying thus. Others do it more reflexively. But notice that it is not just some random reflex if it is such. It is said the most when we are at our most happiest, our most excited, our most hopeful. Because there truly is something that we recognize in saying something, and in effect, jinxing it as such. We may not put it in to words when we say such things, but how many of us just know, instinctually, and based upon experience after experience, that there is often a cruel, or perhaps merely great or funny, irony about to occur? How many, when something big is going to happen, try not to say for as long as we possibly can, for fear that as soon as it is spoken, that it shall all go horribly wrong?

Or luck. Who among us does not at some point in our lives truly believe that we are having a streak of either good or bad luck? Of course, it may often simply be that we remember the bad moments the most vividly, and that they seem all the more intense when we are at a height, and to an extent, this is probably true. But that as it may be, it simply does not remove the ironies rife within our very lives. Some are more memorable than others, but anyone who has spent time looking for them cannot help but notice that an hour cannot pass without at least a few. As one whose great source of amusement can often come from noticing even the smallest little irony, I must say that it is not only inevitable, but a great part of our existence. What this means to us all, I haven't a clue, and frankly, I've quite lost my train of thought upon this twisted track, but I thought it all very amusing.

I suppose, that which I find most amusing at the moment is how often these ironies manifest themselves as superstitions in people, and even more ironically, in those who most claim themselves immune from the vaguries of those of poorer mental reasoning or education. Irony, like many other things, must be recognized with, and dealt accordingly with, even if all that one can do is laugh at it, or perhaps cringe in a fetal ball, rocking slowly and singing nonsensical things. Which, I must admit, are both equally decent forms of acceptence, and both which I think can be amusing to partake in. Both at the same time, now that's entertaining.