CANCER
“The day will be financially rewarding, you could have your favorite food today.” read “Your day Today” column in the daily.
Some people believed in horoscopes, and they worked hard to make their forecasts true. They would change their perspective to make sure all the forecasts stood right. Mr.Sampath is one such man, unemployed and lazy.
He was a drunkard, but he disagreed. He called it fondness for drinking.
Certainly his day was financially rewarding, he won two hundred rupees
from a card game at the bar. He spent the whole money on a chicken biriyani and an Old monk, and made his forecast for the day.
“Tringggg………,” cried the calling bell.
“You are stinking, you could have slept at the bar,” shouted his wife.
They were married for more than a year; she had tried everything to change
him. She was getting frustrated at his sarcasm and at times from physical torture.
“I did whatever my horoscope read. I’m happy being like this,” laughed Sampath.
“Dinner is on the table,” murmured his wife.
She took up the daily, turned to the horoscope column, and focused her vision on her zodiac sign.
PISCES
“Don’t be surprised if you meet somebody who makes your pulse race.”
Quite right. She told herself.
Lazy Sampath woke up very early, read “Your day Today” column and went
on to think of ways to implement his daily forecasts. It was his routine,
he made it a point to implement his forecasts.
Today it read
CANCER
“A sense of satisfaction in your success. Anything relating to your spouse may play a bigger part in your life. A divorce, court harassment is highly possible.”
He could not think of ways to implement a divorce, did he want one?
Not at all, where would he get the money to get himself drunk?
Sampath looked at the clock. It was eleven thirty, he felt hungry, no clues
of the chicken biriyani in his belly.
He looked around the hall, no one was there. The kitchen door was locked, and no signs of breakfast on the stove. The refrigerator was empty, as empty as it used to be.
“Where did she go?” he wondered.
He switched on the TV, and took the daily on the other hand. He browsed through the sports pages and out of habit, stopped at the horoscope column.
“It’s going to be my first failure,” he laughed at himself, after reading his
horoscope.
He looked at it again. His mouth sagged, eyes dropped and he felt numbness at his throat.
The column read:
PISCES
“You could be seeking out some form of independence. Today you are likely to be the one taking the first step”
He didn’t fail, as his horoscope read, there was a sense of satisfaction in his success.
