Turns Out That October Truly Is An “Auspicious” Month
According to the dictionary, auspicious means “conducive to success; favorable” or “attended by good fortune; prosperous.” And ever since I moved to India, I’ve been hearing this word “auspicious” being used quite often. For example, someone may say, “that time of the year is an auspicious time to get married” or “it is considered auspicious to give 1 rupee more when giving cash gifts to someone for an auspicious occasion.” I used to feel that this was all superstition and primarily based on a series of anecdotes passed on from generation to generation however lately my belief system around the concept of something being “auspicious” has started to evolve…all thanks to Facebook. It’s not that I saw an inspirational video on auspicious-ness or read a life-changing blog post, no, it is thanks to Facebook’s memories notification which I happened to click on a few days ago. Post clicking, I was taken through a series of images from the past nine years and realized that man