30-Day Challenge (20/30) Someone once told me that superstition is the religion of the ignorants. I don’t see myself as a superstitious person but as a child, I was taught some weird things that took me some good years until I could think for myself and finally get rid of such beliefs. One of them was that if one leaves a shoe or a sandal turned upside down on the floor it might cause the death of someone from that household. I can still remember the feeling of panic I used to feel every time I saw an unattended shoe in such a position in my house. Eventually, I became a sort of a guardian of shoes of the house. I used to walk around checking if everyone's shoes were in the correct position and if I found any that wasn't I would complain to its owner and for a few days I kept my eyes on the unlucky soul whom I believed was about to die. Put like this it probably sounds silly or even absurd, but for a five-year-old child, it was quite scary. There were other beliefs that I was taught like the one about placing a broom behind the entrance door if you want someone who’s visiting you to leave. According to this belief that would make your inconvenient visitor cut the visit short. Walking backwards meant that your you were wishing your mother to die. It took me a long time until I realised that there wasn’t any truth to it, but up until then, I suffered a lot with all these nonsense that I was irresponsibly taught by my elderly. What I waste of time.