Rules That Makes No Sense But We Follow
Every culture is different, but there are somethings and some rules that the majority of the world follows. These are referred to as social norms. No one knows why they are in place and no one questions it. We all just follow them. Let's get started!
1. Knocking On The Wood!
This is a very weird superstition, yet when you talk about someone dying, you’re suppose to knock on wood to stop it from happening. It is also used when you talk about a possible positive opportunity coming up, but you don’t want to jinx it. Perhaps you’re trying out for the lead in the school play or think you’ll be getting a promotion at work – if you talk about it out loud then the next step is to automatically knock on the nearest wooden surface. Now how could knocking on a piece of wood possibly help you out? Well it doesn’t. It just pretty much mind over matter and it’s just something you can do to make yourself feel better.
2. Eating Together
Now when you go out to a restaurant with a group of people, it’s inevitable that some people are going to get their food before others. And yet the people who get their food need to wait until everyone has food in front of them before they start eating. Yeah that’s just called being polite. But when you think about it, it really doesn’t make sense because the person’s food will get cold, but being a good person matters more, right?
3. Facing Forward
It’s like just an unspoken rule that everyone happens to follow. But why when we get in an elevator do we automatically turn back around? Either way we are facing a blank wall. Another unspoken elevator rule is scooting as far away from your fellow passengers as possible. When someone else gets on, we scoot over to the other side automatically, who knows why or when that started to happen. But everyone does it.
4. Birthday Candles
Something we learn from a very young age is that a birthday cake is supposed to have candles on the top of it. But when you think about it, what’s the point of putting a bunch of flaming wax sticks on your cake each year? The wax just drips off onto the cake anyway. Yeah it’s a nice sentiment because it symbolizes you making your birthday wish once you blow them out. But you can do the same thing with making the first cut into the cake. Even though its confusing on why it’s a thing. But it looks pretty and its meaningful at this point. So yeah bring on the candles!
5. Wearing Different Clothes Everyday
Now this makes sense for people who can wear their clothes for one day because after a few hours they get their clothes all dirty and have them smelling like sweat. But if your day is less grueling and you are just chilling, and doing any running around, keeping your clothes clean and smelling fresh then why is it so weird if you wear them two days in a row? Because the judgmental people at your school or workplace will think you’re weird, that’s why. They will think you are dirty, lazy, and don’t have any clean clothes. So to avoid all that, we need to look different everyday. Now obviously underwear needs to be changed everyday for hygiene reasons. But who cares if you wear the same t-shirt from yesterday, it shouldn’t matter yet it does, and it’s one of those rules that almost everybody follows.
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