The Lucky Number '13'

Its 13-July-2008.I was off today,so thought would rest for a while.Thoughts kept flowing through my mind.Thoughts are inevitable part of life.Imagine a situation where we have to think nothing......ooops..I feel its terrible.

One of my thoughts was about the unlucky 13.Why is 13 always considered unlucky?I was always turned off when people described this natural number as unlucky.So i thought of putting a few words in my blog.


People seem to be afraid of this number.Fear of the number 13 is termed triskaidekaphobia.They take special care not to conduct any celebrations on a 13th.It may be of various reasons.

In Christianity ,it is believed that Judas Iscariot,the disciple who betrayed Jesus, was the thirteenth to sit at the table for The Last Supper.Another notion is that when we divide 13people or objects equally into two or four or six divisions,there would always be one unlucky object or person.Some feel its related to dracula.:)),esp Friday ,the Thirteenth.


I ve noticed something strange.

The Medical college hospital ,where I studied did not have a ward 13,

No airports in Scotland have a Gate 13,instead it is Gate 12A&12B.

Microsoft plans to skip Office 13 for being "an unlucky number," going directly from Office 12 to Office 14.

After 13 years of being the richest man in the world, Microsoft Corporation chairman Bill Gates lost this title, according to Forbes magazine's 2008 list of the world's billionaires.


I ve no idea how to comment on these superstitions.However 13 was always a very lucky number to me.

I was born on a thirteenth.

My first house warming ceremony was on Dec 13th

My passport was issued on a 13th

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And the most important event in my life,my marriage was on a 13th,

Every 13th of a month,is a month ahead of my marriage

I have more reasons to consider 13 as a lucky number.I remember a news I read in a magazine,that a young girl played violin for 13 hours continuously & made the unlucky number 13,a lucky number.I was definitely one among those who were delighted to hear it.


In Sikhism, the number 13 is considered a special number since 13 is tera in Punjabi, which also means "yours" (as in, "I am yours, O Lord").
Colgate University also considers 13 to be a lucky number. They were founded in 1817 by 13 men with 13 dollars, 13 prayers, and 13 articles.


So I feel strongly that poor digit 13 should not be abandoned.It should always be given due importance as our other numbers,cos its no one's fault to be born on a 13th,and also what has to happen in life will happen.So ,why this fear?