Exploring destiny

     

   I always wondered if the lines on the palm meant something.  Does it predict one's future?  Can it tell about one's past?  Being born in a family of astrologers I was raised to believe that astrology is a science.  Each planet position has an affect on human being and human behavior.  In fact the predictions are based on scientific facts and calculations, and are not just guess work.  Now, does that mean that the astrologers know what will happen to them?  Can they predict each and every moment of their life?  Hmmm hard to say.    Some good astrologers do predict what the future holds.  So, this lead me into another methods used for predicting one's future.  Palmistry.  How much can a palm predict and how accurate can the lines tell about one's future?  This has been a subject that captivated my interest from a very young age.  I read couple of palmistry books and tried my then newly acquired skills on my friends and relatives.  Some of my predictions came true.  By the way, I have no clue how they came true.  I think it was just coincidence.  Anyhow, that was when I was young and curious to know my own future.  At that age who doesn't want to have a sneak peek of future?  As if palmistry was a time machine and took me into the future, I seriously measured the lines on my palm and predicted couple of things about my future.  I felt confident about my predictions. After all, I had read it in a book so how could a book be wrong!  However, you should be a good reader to comprehend the book as the author meant it to be, to be able to make 100% correct predictions.  
   I blindly believed that the future is in our hands.  In this case, it is hidden in the lines of our palm.  Contrary to my mind set, one time I saw a picture of an accident in the newspaper.  It was a picture taken after the bomb blast.  All the people in the picture were killed in the blast and pieces of their body parts were scattered around.  In that gruesome picture, what caught my attention was a palm.  A man whose palm was wide open facing upwards while his young body was crushed and unrecognizable.  I took a closer look at the palm.  The open palm showed a very long life with hardly any obstacles in life.  That picture got me thinking.  How was that possible?  It was against all the rules of the book.  He didn't even look like he had crossed his twenties.  It was impossible for a man with this palm to die!  I was confused, baffled and perturbed.  I couldn't believe what I saw.  The whole science of prediction started fading in front of my eyes.      Can anybody predict the lines of the palm?  Is palmistry reliable?  Is it possible to explore lines to know the destiny?  Well, at least the man who died in the accident, knows that nobody can be sure about their destiny!

Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment. 

- Buddha


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