The Psychic

Sometimes when we're really down and out we find ourselves searching for some deeper meaning. Something more powerful than ourselves, something or someone to give us some answers. I admit, one day, at 27 I decided to join my girlfriend for her twice yearly trip to her Psychic. Full of anticipation, and expectations, I met her at the address she gave me. Rounding the corner, I fully expected to find some dingy door in a strip mall, with a red neon sign flashing "fortune teller- come on in we're open". Instead, I arrived at the destination; a classy apartment building in a well travelled neighborhood. I was ready to get some answers.


Greeted by an elderly woman in her sixties, we entered. Respectable, clean, and tidy. The kitchen table sat in the middle of the room. Four chairs, a tape recorder and a deck of cards. As her grandson, zoomed around the apartment - she got to work.

My friend went first. Several life issues were tackled one at a time. Before I knew it was my turn in the hot seat. I nervously answered her questions, and lingered on her every word. "May I record the session?", she eagerly asked. "Of course", I stammered. Without divulging her reading, what I can tell you is that she was bang on for recent events that were unfolding in my life. Some were even powerfully scary. Trust me, once home I scoured my entire social network to find a tape recorder to replay the silly cassette, and played-paused and stopped the tape over and over to write every single word down. Now thats scary.

On the other side her predictions for my future were way off. Like several years off. Three years later- off. Like potentially never gonna happen in this life time-off. There is a part of me that still wants to believe, that holds out for some her predictions, grasping on to the potential that maybe this psychics' powers are several years off in terms of time lines. In the meantime, while I await her predictions to unfold neatly into my life, I've realised that we are own creators. Along the way, I've come to learn that the best way to predict the future is to create it.