Sunday, May 5, 2013

Tsougrisma and Good Luck

Today (and every year) at my husband's family's Easter lunch, we played tsougrisma... And I won!

Nick's aunt hosts Easter and every year she dyes a basket of eggs red. The dyed red eggs symbolize the blood of Christ and their hard shells symbolize the sealed tomb. When the egg shells are cracked, that symbolizes Christ's resurrection.

From Wikipedia, here is a description of the game, tsougrisma:

The rules:
The game is called tsougrisma (τσουγκρισμα in Greek) and it involves two players and red eggs.

Each player holds a red egg, and one taps the end of her/his egg lightly against the end of the other player’s egg. The goal is to crack the opponent’s egg. When one end is cracked, the winner uses the same end of her/his egg to try to crack the other end of the opponent’s egg.

The player who successfully cracks the eggs of the other players is declared the winner and, it is said, will have good luck during the year.

In the, ohhh, about ten (maybe more) Easters I've spent with my husband's family, I've never won this game. My egg is always cracked right away. Someone else is always declared the winner of good luck (and how true this has been!). But this year, my egg won!! Could this be some really symbolic foreshadowing?!

God, I hope this was somehow your way of telling me not to give up and that maybe, just maybe, this will be MY year! Could we possibly find another good egg?!

13 comments:

Team Harries said...

My best friends family plays this every year!! I always love hearing the stories! And yes, with God all things are possible. It's TOTALLY possible to find lots of good eggs, hooray!

the blogivers said...

I'm hoping for it to be a GREAT sign!

kharini said...

It WILL be your year!!!

Part of my family is greek orthodox and we used to play the egg war at one of my aunts place each year!! I had forgotten about it! How fun! Ooooohhh, you brought so many memories!

Erika said...

This is such a great story!! And I think it could definitely be symbolic! I'm just glad you won. Winning is the best. :)

Sally said...

LOVE THIS!! xoxo

Gypsy Mama said...

This is great!! And I totally believe in signs and I think this is going to be a great year for you :)

Laura said...

I love this! And I truly hope this is a sign of things to come this year for you!! XOXO

Lya said...

I'm a big believer in signs! I truly hope that you have a FANTASTIC and LUCKY year ahead of you!

JenS said...

A good sign, indeed. I truly hope this is your lucky year.

Emily said...

Yay for a good strong egg, and I say it's a sign. Glad you took a pic and documented the moment so you can look back and say Yes, it was a sign!

I am so excited to root you on in your new journey with a new clinic, and I reallllllly hope the fresh set of eyes is going to be exactly what you need!

Jessah @ Dreaming of Dimples said...

Yay for the red egg. I love traditions like that. How fun! I too think this is a good sign...eggs. Couldn't be a more fitting prize. :)

Aramis said...

That's a pretty awesome sign! I'd take it and run!

Amber said...

How could it be anything but a GREAT sign of things to come :) I've actually never heard about this tradition before. Thanks for sharing.

 
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