Why can't you give gifts in advance?

In our fast-paced age, people are separated by cities, years and distances. Working on a rotational basis, urgent business trips, performing official duties away from home, round-the-clock shifts, sudden illness and a number of other circumstances can prevent the timely delivery of a presentation to relatives and friends for a birthday or another holiday.

Optimists believe that you can congratulate the birthday person and give a present at any time. Pessimists and superstitious people, referring to ancient pagan omens, say that premature congratulations can bring major failures at work, serious illness or even death to the hero of the day.

Explanations of the ancient omens about why it is impossible to give gifts in advance go back more than two millennia in the era of ancient paganism. There are many ways to explain the relationship between an advance gift and subsequent adverse events. Let us dwell briefly on the analysis of each of them.

• Such a gift scares away the saints and the spirits of deceased relatives, who come to the birthday man the night before the significant date. According to pagan mythology, a person, having lost the patronage of their ancestors, will become vulnerable to the evil eye, curses and diseases. The explanation is based on ancient pagan myths and legends. It has nothing to do with reality.
• Birthday gifts and wishes carry a powerful charge of positive energy. A premature gift does not have this effect. Without energy supply, a person begins to weaken and become seriously ill. The explanation is based on mysticism, bioenergy, torsion field theory and occult sciences.This explanation has nothing to do with the traditional scientific approach and the theory of probability.
• At the festive table around a person, in addition to friends and acquaintances, invisible angels and demons gather. Picking them up early will make them very angry, as a result, they can punish the birthday boy.... The explanation is based on ancient mythology, mysticism and related speculation.

The most logical and plausible version of the explanation of the mechanism of the unfavorable effect of a premature present (without an admixture of mysticism) asserts the following: after reading posts on the Internet about mysticism and omens, after watching videos with ghouls and ghouls, thrillers with computer graphics, after reading many articles on the topic of occultism, a suspicious person begins to be very nervous in anticipation of a sad outcome after the presentation was received ahead of time.

Severe stress arises, which is the cause of deterioration in health. Ancient omens and legends have nothing to do with this. There is a very large grain of truth in this version of the explanation of the events taking place, however, many aspects and conclusions that arise are in the field of psychology, extrasensory perception and other areas of medicine far beyond the scope of this article.

Superstitions, omens and mysticism arose simultaneously with the appearance of Homo sapiens. Lack of knowledge made it impossible for primitive man to substantively explain elementary natural phenomena (lightning, wind, the onset of day and night, a change in weather, a rainbow). As a result of this, synthetic explanations arose (various superstitions and omens).

In the slave-owning era, superstitions intimidated recalcitrant slaves, inspired fear of violation of ancient traditions and rituals. Paying tribute to ancient traditions and trying to find a way out of a difficult life situation, in the 21st century, civilized people with two higher educations still use wax, coffee grounds and put a copper coin under their heels.

A simple and effective way to get around bad omens is not to focus all your thoughts on the possibility of a bad outcome. By focusing on the possible unfavorable outcome of the business started (relying on bad omens and omens), a person creates in his mind a stable zone of increased excitement that distracts from the main problems. It grabs memory resources for a cyclical process of finding a way out of the situation. Attention is scattered, the person begins to make gross logical mistakes.

Avoiding superstitions and bad omens is of particular importance in the lives of people who were born on the last winter day of a leap year. Strictly following tradition, they can only celebrate their birthday on time once every four years. For all other years, they are forced to accept gifts on February 28th.

To minimize the negative impact from premature presentations and bypass bad signs, experienced psychologists and psychics recommend the following steps.

• Hide a present in a secluded place in the birthday boy's room, informing relatives or friends about this, who will hand it over to the hero of the day just in time.
• Send a present by mail indicating the exact date of delivery to the addressee.
• Give a present before your birthday without congratulations and wishes, saying that congratulations on the anniversary will be right on time. On the right day, you can call the hero of the day and congratulate him on the holiday.

This tactic of behavior:

• leaves a pleasant impression on a person from the attention given to him;
• avoids conflict about not showing up for a birthday;
• prevents an unpleasant situation presenting a gift much later than the anniversary;
• allows you to deliver the gift on time if it is impossible to meet in person for objective reasons;
• does not affect the canons of the worldview of a superstitious person, so as not to hurt him or hurt him mentally;
• creates the preconditions for further development and strengthening friendly relations.

An interesting fact: statistics collected from open sources indicate a negligible percentage of coincidence of unfavorable events with early birthday gifts. In total, about 100,000 documented facts of presenting gifts were analyzed a few days before the birthday.

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