Rituals

You know, it's odd how we mentally frame our world and place value and instill hope in things that probably have no sway in changing our lives. However, they can have great control and exert influence over our behavior and the way we may perceive anything, from the way we perceive our selves, our families, life and world in general and react according to that. Well, that could be everything.

Over the years as I grew up, I decided to take more control of my life, tried to implement better decision making systems and went on a journal to first find and then understand and eventually reconcile what I've found and what I want of and for myself. Of course, finding and desires are also things that takes time to discover, but for the purposes of this blog entry and length, I will discuss that at another blog (hopefully I'll remember).

I have silly beliefs and principals that somethings I feel are counterproductive to my goals and mission. But, I keep them still, because at the very worst and in my lowest points, they make me feel like at least I am still doing something and still in the fight of "trials and determination", however weakened the both items might be.

Why, as humans do we feel the need to create rituals and later the need to place so much value in those beliefs? I have no answer to that question other than the fact that it comforts us and allows us to hold on to something that we have other wise been unable to hold on to either physically or non-physically in our realities and lives. We might have created them as motivators, or to stop patterns of wrongful behavior. Whatever may be the case, they I believe usually drive from past experiences and hopeful expectations of different, bettered results in the future. They can give us the last minute strength we may have mustered up in ourselves to have the courage to go on when we experience the never ending storms of our lives. Who hasn't had multiple of those in their lives? I believe, none. But then again, I might be wrong. It's not like I've done a study on this or anything.

Well, my rituals are that I must clean my home top to bottom every Wednesday and Sundays. I must go out grocery shopping early on Saturdays and that I also must take care of myself and religiously follow religious prayers. I feel that, in the minimum if I can accomplish these on time and well, my week and later my month will somehow turn out okay. Because at the minimum I have put forth some sort of effort in the great balance sheet of the Universe.

What are your rituals?