Cursed Forever?

A curse is a terrible thing, as it inflicts great harm on the person who is cursed, and gives great power to the one who is inflicting that curse. And to make it worse, sometimes those curses don’t go away when the person dies, but are passed on down from generation to generation. Cursed forever.

What is a curse though? ‘A solemn utterance intended to invoke a supernatural power to inflict harm or punishment on someone or something.’

But the question has often been raised when people observe certain happenings. “It seems as if the family has been cursed forever down the generations?”

When persons see the crosses that affect some families, they easily come to the conclusion that a generational curse exists. But the Bible does say that the sins of the father are passed down to the children, so if you believe that sins are passed down from generation to generation, the generational curse is not that farfetched.

If you may notice, some families may have a similar vein of negative occurrences that always seem to affect them. One is early teenage pregnancy. Every generation of young girls in the family gets pregnant from an early age. Grandma had her first child at age fifteen, that daughter had hers at the same age, and that daughter also had her baby at the same age. “My word, is like de whole a dem curse, breed from dem is likkle pickney.”

Still, some may not call it a curse, as the babies may be most welcome, but others may see it quite differently, as the men don’t usually stick around after, leaving the women to bear the onerous burden of being a single mother..

And speaking of women being left and not being able to hold a man, that too is often seen to be a generational curse. Many women meet men, settle down, get married. For others though, it’s a revolving door of countless men traipsing in and out of their lives, as they simply cannot seem to hold on to even one man.

When it affects one woman, it’s happenstance or luck of the draw, but when it affects almost all of the women in the same family, it defies all laws of probability or coincidence and the shadow of a curse looms large.

The men do not escape this generational curse. If you speak with some sociologists or policemen who are active in crime scenes, they will tell you that

many generations are cursed with the sins of the fathers being passed down to the sons. “His father was shot and killed, as was his father before him, and now so is he, cursed to the bitter end.”

Some may say that it’s a societal problem, nature versus nurture why some generations of young men end up the same way. Others will insist that it’s a generational curse. The son acts like a rabid wolf, biting everyone who he sees, cursed forever.

The reality is, some families just seem to be afflicted by some sort of curse that never seems to go away. There are young women of the same family who just can’t seem to get pregnant no matter how hard they try. Are those biological, physiological, psychological factors, or just plain old time generational curses?

Why is it that some men are always cheated on by their women, just as their fathers were, and no matter how many different women they choose, they always end up getting cheated on?

Also, some women always have bad luck with men, and when you hear them speak, it’s always the man’s fault why the relationship crashed and burned. Is it really bad luck, bearing in mind that the mothers suffered the same fate?

But in the same way that there are curses, there are also blessings, and I firmly believe in generational blessings. So while some people may be cursed forever, many are blessed forever too. 

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