I've had palm readings and tarot cards read, and although deep down I know it's just for entertainment, I use them as a tool.
Each time I have gone I couldn't help but feel my hope renewed because almost each and every time I get told love and a great career is on the way.
The first time I went, I had just turned eighteen, I have gone between then and now (thirty) and mostly it's been all good news. I can't help but wonder now, where the fuck is he, and why the piss do I not have the golden career?
Perhaps they were all wrong, or worse, the only woman who told me different was right.
I was down in New Orleans with friends in the early 2000's, and somewhere in the French Quarter I sat in the hot humid Louisiana sun, and had my palm read by the most authentic looking palm reader I've ever seen.
She was blind in one eye and it was clouded over, her hair was long and in tattered curls and she had an ongoing outfit of scarves tied together to make a dress type thing.
This woman was incredible, she told me things I'd never told anyone, and many of her predictions have indeed come true. She was specific about details of my past, and I sat across from her in wide eyed wonder.
Telling me I was set for financial security and a job I will love, made me feel glorious hope, and the fact that she was so dead on with other things, I felt like maybe this woman could see it all in the lines of my hand.
She told me I had dated many snakes (she said snakes, I say assholes) and that I had more to wade my way through, she was right. Then she told me one last bit of information, I wish she hadn't.
After an intense reading, she looked up at me with a sad look, and said the words I'll never forget. "I'm sorry," she said, "but you'll never meet your soul mate."
Boom. There it was smack dab in the middle of my vacation, a clairvoyant gypsy telling me that there really is not point to date. By her vision, I dated a lot of jerks, was going to date even worse only to end up not with my soul mate.
NICE. Thanks a shit load gypsy lady, you really didn't need to tell me that last part. The only good to come out of this, is the calm I now feel knowing I don't even need to worry about dating, indeed there is no reason.
Maybe she was right, maybe I'll never meet my soul mate. Luckily, I have beer, and soon enough I should be getting that career to match this financial security. Unless of course that's the one thing she's wrong about....
