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Yeah I think you pretty much hit the nail on the head.

When know how much it sucks to be in the cold and piss pouring rain all day, or have a really difficult stretch to cover, and you realize how completely out of your control these things are, you start to cling on to the tinyest little things, like superstitions.

I am not exactly a fatalist, but I think the same is true to some degree in our daily lives, although we may not notice it as much, since it is of a less viceral nature. Life just goes on, and a lot of it is completely out of our control.