A thoughtful boy, John had always wanted to make sense of some of the things that had happened to him in his life so far.
It all started with the fortune cookie from Brigitta.
A random opening which led him on a journey of thought, discovery, reflection, and ‘synchronicity’ of hispast and my future, attempting to make sense of it all and perhaps, change his fate in the process.
You see, after that meal at the Chinese, strange things began to happen and suddenly he ‘got it’ – he started to understand the bigger picture. Things started to make sense.
Sharing these stories helped him. It was like a release. He likens it now to a medicine cabinet.
A medicine cabinet? I hear you ask.
Think about the scene in 13 going on 30, or even better, Big, that seminal film from our childhoods (maybe) and specifically the scene when Tom Hanks’s character Josh sees himself as a grown up. He sees himself in the mirror but doesn’t believe it’s really him, so he opens the cupboard to check there’s nothing behind it. The cupboard contains the usual medicines, nothing more.
John’s medicine cabinet shows a mysterious face. By looking inside the cupboard, unlike Josh, he finds experiences from the past that also tell the story of the face he sees.
So, writing these stories helped John. It was cathartic, and helped put things into perspective and into the past.
Explained the car crash. Attributed blame for the burglary. Solved mysteries.
As you have read, those thirteen faces he has written about, were unlucky for some. Mainly him.
But John couldn’t stop there.
The fortune cookie message had predicted something that may or may not be true. What else lay in store for him in the future? He needed to know what other possibilities were there, so that he could make the most of his future. Like Marty McFly, by going back he was improving his own future.
This time, he also had to enlist the help of others once again. He looked closely at the work of Sophie Calle and Paul Auster, who made the following comments over ten years ago:
“Chance? Destiny? Or simple mathematics, an example of probability theory at work? It doesn’t matter what you call it. Life is full of such events… These are coincidences… Things like this happen to me all the time!”
John also wanted to discover more, by using other people’s interpretations of his story.
He began to find out how others saw him, and his future.
He followed the rules of the Psychic Reading Handbook, in which he read the following:
“Sometimes our desire to create something is so strong that we impatiently search for the outcomes before they have been created… A psychic can help you to get to the heart of the matter by putting aside your emotional blocks and pre-existing expectations”
He had his palms read several times.
Followed his stars.
Made wishes, too. Think back again to Big, and the wish that Josh makes at the Zoltar fortune teller’s booth.
His wish came true, and he had fun, for a while at least.
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