いきなりですが・・・
昨日の続きからです。
I noticed a grasshopper beside me and I couldn't help talking to it.
"Oh, iｔ's YOU who ate this leaf. Why did you choose it, even though there is so much clover available here?"
However, I suddenly realized that this grasshopper wasn't wrong. It didn't know that four leaves are precious. It doesn't matter for grasshoppers, so grasshoppers don't care whether the clover they eat has four leaves or not. They simply eat whatever clover is in front of them. Only some people think that four leaves are lucky. That's it! It's just an arbitrary thing that people made up.
If people strictly try to follow their superstitions, positive or negative, it would be hard to live. For example, in order to avoid an unlucky accident, whenever put on shoes, you would always have to start from the right side!
ほっほー。
私の母はとても迷信深い人でした。
お漬物を食べるときも「3切は（ミキレ）は身切につながる」とか言って（身が切れてけがをしてしまうかもしれないという意味です）、「お漬物を食べるときは必ず4切か5切、または2切を食べなさい」と言っていました。(一切れも避けたほうがいい、ヒトキレ、他人を傷つけてはいけない、と。）
親心でしょうね。でも全く科学的ではありませんね。
あと一回、この続きがあります。