Tuesday 16 June 2009

Wednesdays' child

According to the old rhyme, the child born on a Wednesday is full of woe.

Why exactly, is not clear. All the other days get reasonable things, some get great things assigned to them - Monday is beauty, Tuesday gets grace, Thursday will travel, Friday is kind, Saturday will work hard, Sunday gets the whole package of blithe and bonny and gay - so why is Wednesday the day for crying?

And, of course, it does not mean the rest of us don't get our share of woe.

Of course, this is just as arbitrary as thinking that all whites are racist, all blacks are lazy or violent, all Jews are grasping, all Asians are cunning etc. etc. The stereotypes are always there and are always arbitrary. How can we break free?

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