Today my sister SMSd me saying that she had some exciting news to share. I wondered whether her braces were coming off. But here is the twist. She said that she had been to an astrologer who had said something’s about our future.
As a child I wanted to believe in astrology where I would regularly read the astrology columns in the newspaper and wait for the event to occur on that day of my life. If it didn’t occur I would read the column tomorrow again. My curiosity got the better of me. I went ahead and bought Linda Goodman’s book on horoscope. The book covered every detail about the traits of men, women and children of each sign. I actively read about my sign and then went ahead to believe that all good things being told was about me and the not so good stuff was about the other people belonging to the same zodiac.
Years passed and here I am ready to disbelieve everything told by astrologers and their clan. Today when I read the horoscope column in the newspaper ,I simply cannot stop wondering the generalization used in it. Is it possible that the world is divided into 12 separate teams who march together and have the same events happening to all of them? Then how can one generalize things in the column. The best part is there are many people out there who want to believe that such things do happen and wait all day for it to happen and when it doesn’t they go back to the same page and column. After all tomorrow never dies.
A few years back my mother had been to an astrologer who said that she would be a “Sumangali” which meant that she would die before my dad did. But she couldn’t come to terms with life when she found herself alone trying to raise two daughters all by herself. But she still believes in astrology and buys book regularly which predict our futures annually. Well that’s how moms are.
At times I think that all astrologers can become excellent economists. When my mom had been to one long time back he predicted that I would become a doctor and that I would settle in the US. It was a time when most of us from India were packing our bags for greener pastures. The next time she went to another one she said that I would do very well for myself in the computer industry which was when the BPO, IT boom had stuck India and only those sectors were the biggest recruiters. Today the same people tell me that I would not work for a long time and start a business of my own few years down the line. Of course with the recent downturn, all the subprime hooh-hah and the developed countries looking with much anticipation towards the developing countries the entire action is going to be in Asia with India becoming a the future super power. So doesn’t all this seem to be a bit too predictable?
I am no believer in stars, horoscopes, tarot …. But I do believe that all of us are bound to our karmas and our future is destined by our Karmas. Yes astrology feels good at times when all positive and believable things are told about us especially during times of gloom and doom when we even don’t have our jobs to hold on to. May be they provide us with a ray of hope saying good times are awaiting us and propel us unknowingly towards our unset or unvisited goals. But all said and done are we here to just enact our roles when the script has already been written? If yes, then who is this script writer- the astrologers who are acting as messengers or is there a collective conscious out there which always outwits us.
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