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Don’t Show Your Palms to Strangers
By Mihar Dias
(C) Copyright December 2021
Sara, a flamboyant member of our breakfast group is known for disliking palmists. She made no secret about it, telling us, there were just charlatans, out to squeeze money from you, reading your future, based on lines that have no scientific basis.
Her opinions about them were about to change one fateful morning when someone at our informal breakfast club, read her palm.
“Sara, the palms don’t lie! If God wanted to give you a plan, where else would He put it, if not in your palms?”, remarked our guest palmist.
Sara was still sceptical. “Now that you put it that way, it sounds so, so logical, so, so clever eh!?”.
“Shall I tell you what I see?”, asked the palmist, whom we had invited to join the group that morning, without her knowledge.
“Go ahead!”
“Are you sure, you are willing to let everyone around this table, hear what I am about to say?” Asked the palmist.
“Yes, of course. I have nothing to hide”. She replied.
The palmist held her hand, turned it around gently, to look at the edges. “Excuse me I think you and I need to take a short walk to the counter. I need a drink. You may need one too!”.
When they were at a quiet corner, some distance away from the breakfast group, the palmist asked, “I am sorry if you find my next question, offensive. You don’t have to answer. It’s up to you. Are you having an affair? Or likely to have one, soon?”
Her face turned red and pink. Instead of replying, she responded with a question.
“That’s crazy…. How could you ever know something like that? Are you a private detective? Are you tailing me?”
“Please calm down. It’s on your palms. That’s why I wanted you to step away from the table. It’s ok your secret is safe. I usually forget what I read soon after”.
The palmist consoled her. “Let me buy you a drink”.
They rejoined the group, not saying a word, with Sara leaving, sooner than usual, excusing herself saying she needed to attend to an urgent family business.
Months later, when we saw each other again, by chance, Sara asked me how did he (the palmist, I guessed) know! (About what?).
She left me wondering for a long while, before proceeding.
“You didn’t know? He didn’t tell you!” (Who? Tell me what!).
I looked at her and replied, “What are you talking about?”
“The palmist. He guessed I was having an affair!” (Oh, I see).
“Well, are you?” She nodded.
I told her I, myself, was an amateur palmist and gently persuaded her to show me her palms, then pointed to her the lines he saw.
I told her, he was an excellent, professional palm reader. Her secret was safe.
“Let me tell you about a similar incident that happened over high tea at PJ Hilton years ago. Another palmist read the palm of a socialite who was curious to know about her life and career. She had lines like yours. But this lady was more composed. She never showed her emotion but confessed to me, later the palmist was right. She added that the past he told, was also true”.
“However, the future he predicted that she chose not to believe then, turned out to be true, in her later life. She was divorced, remarried and is now a business celebrity, inheriting immense wealth after the death of her second husband”.
I am not suggesting you, who is now reading this column, run out looking for a palmist right away. I do not want you might end up falling into the trap of a self-fulfilling prophecy from a reading by a palmist who might not know what he was doing.
It would be better to hear about your past from an unknown reader, in that way you would, at least, have a chance to gauge the accuracy of a reading. But trying to discover your future through a palmist is like checking out your astrology forecast, it might just lead you astray.
Be a sceptic like Sara. Don’t believe everything you hear! Most of all do not show your palms to strangers; they might just read out loud, your best-kept secrets.
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