The power of a “jinx” is something that only exists if we believe in it.
Things just happen. No one has the supernatural gift to “magically” make shit up. Sometimes we just believe people have this capacity over our lives, and we let it affect us.
We become their voodoo doll, and it’s funny (crazy), because it all lives in our heads. They don’t even know or consider us in that way. Yet we believe they have that power for no real reason at all.
Why?
We let them.
These people, most of the time, don’t even realise they have that effect on us (and it’s better to keep it that way). Good people will help us try to work out the “why” and overcome it, but bad people will just use it to their advantage.
They will learn how to use you.
So why do we let them? Why, more often than not, do we let others affect our decisions more than our own conscience?
When I say people, that can be anyone from our own family and friends to complete strangers on the street. Sometimes we just stop doing something because, “What would people think?”

WHO CARES?

We have lost faith in our own conscience. In our gut feeling, in our own moral compass.
All the tools that we had to make our decisions are compromised. It is not because they don’t work, but because we have stopped using them. By following too many social cues and other people’s opinions, we have replaced them with systems that are much worse off.
Yes, there are no absolutes, and no tools are perfect or perfectly aligned and/or balanced. You can be sure, though, that what we were given genetically, instinctively, would be the most accurate tool out there.
Obviously, I don’t want to speak for everyone. I repeat: there are no absolutes.
The issue is that, more often than not, the people who follow their instincts without caring what others think, or without following any moral compass at all, are the people who shouldn’t. On the other hand, people with very good gut feelings and instincts tend to listen way too much to others and have their judgement impaired instead.

I will do nothing because of public opinion, but everything because of conscience.