Making a wish

A full moon of the Chu-sok
(an image from : http://www.asiae.co.kr/news/view.htm?idxno=2009100321064516924)

Yesterday was Chu-sok holiday (the 15th day of the 8th month of the lunar calendar). In Korea, there's a tradition making a wish before a full moon. A long time ago, people believed that something which looked grand have some great power. A full moon might have been one of them and people might have worshipped it in that reason. Last night, when I walked out of the library, I made a wish to a full moon as well.

People also believed that their ancestors have supernatural power. That's why Korean people have worship ceremories every year on the dates when their ancestors died. In the morning of Chu-sok holiday, they also have that kinds of ceremonies. During the ceremonies, they also make wishes while bowing. Yesterday, I made wishes three times, one was for my grand-grandparents, another one was for my grandparents, and the last one was for my late father. It seems that I made a lot of wishes but I just repeated the same one.:P

I don't believe in superstitious things; specifically, I think that they might happen and affect some events of the world, but I don't want my life to depend on things like them. The reason why I still make wishes to them, even though I don't believe, is to think positive. And it also mean that I appreciate the existence of those things; nature is the place I live in and my ancestors gave a life for me.