Who would not want to know the future? I firmly believe that most people at a basic level are curious. You have some honest people who admit it and some not so honest people who believe in being cool by not being curious. I definitely know my stance in life and I am curious, besides being a SRK fan, loving compliments, eating fancy food and doing all of the other things that weigh high on my pettiness index. Anyways not digressing from what I had started out to write:
Today was one of those regular days .When I was living my boring s/w existence, telling myself how life at the end of it just boils down to binaries and a 0 and 1 kind of thing (yawn yawn I know!). Then suddenly my life decided to become a little interesting and I had to go for dinner at this really swank restaurant (not the kind of place my modest job lets me dine unless I can eat and not pay for the meat!)
There was some kind of a mela underway. The idea was to swindle the firings off their appreciated currency in apparent exchange of a rich enriching Indian cultural experience and all of that. (Oh well whatever that meant).I do not care much but for the fact that the food was amazing the drinks were in abundance and the desserts just rocked. Besides this, one could in the name of art get themselves tattooed on their naval or whichever other part with the glorious mehandi. I like mehandi just for the cool feeling it leaves on your palms and of course cos SRK at some point in time did dance to Mehandi Laga Ke rakhna.(My pettiness at its best). Anyways this particular part of the mela found itself flocked with firang women all drunk and ready to be h (a) ippy Indians. We then had this magician actually walking around the restaurant in circles trying to make things disappear. I was wondering just why did he did not do the vanishing act! Then there was this one guy making caricatures and I always wondered given the wonderful looks I possess would there ever be too much difference between my portrait and caricature? A question I never dare ask myself (except in public forums called blogs! :-)
The one counter which particularly got me interested was this woman dressed completely like a hoax aunty straight from the Ram Gopal Verma thriller called "bhooth" trying to sell a fortune based on Tarot Cards. The statistics of people who sat around here proved that she was lending rather long recounts of predictions and I was all excited on my chance of knowing my future. Having waited for a considerable amount of time (20 minutes spent looking up the ceiling, shuffling shoes, smiling at strangers etc) finally I had my chance of taking a peek into the future and was I excited to say the least. She humbly made me shuffle cards and pick 5 of them out. The software engg in me tends not to be able to relate to actions that re outside of my domain and hence I wanted to get some perspective to all that was happening out here just incase I missed out on the essence of it all. She seemed most disinterested in my question and just asked me to get done with the picking of cards which was pretty much the role I played in the larger scheme of things. After the cards were picked and re-picked cos apparently I was not supposed to see what card I picked till all were picked and all those complexities of the game, they were neatly laid out on the table. Then we shared a long silence and I was hoping that was in no way reflective of my future. Finally figuring out that this non-conversation was heading no where I decided to break the ice and asked her:
Me: So what?
She :You are supposed to ask me questions
Me: Think think think (I thought I just did)
She: Waiting
Me: Thinking
At this rate I was sure my life was headed no where. So not wanting to let her in on my areas of interest, just incase she judges me so, I decided to play safe and ask her abt my career. Normally one would expect -"Wow you will have a great career or you will have a not so great career" but this lady just had the knack of bringing emotion into every sentence she spoke about my career. Like it was just my emotions which contributed to the software force and that pretty much emotions was all that my life was about! And trust me I felt deep emotion of (wonder, amusement and surely dissatisfaction).Then cards were picked, questions answered and the cycle continued. Much was asked about marriage, love, career money and whatever else makes an individuals future. The lady pretty much had a standard answer, seems like my entire future only comprised of emotions and a non-happening life. At the end of what seemed like a long ordeal we were done. On probing further, the lady actually ended up our entire conversation with - "I don't quite believe in Tarot Reading. I am just filling in for my daughter".
"Aah that’s wonderful" is all that I could say with as much emotion as can be. But what’s life without fortunes and some fake tarot readers..
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