Before landing on accountant I traveled down several paths. I thought I could be a fashion designer without ever successfully finishing an outfit. My love for dolphins and the ocean had me looking at Hawaii and marine biology. Thinking creatively and enjoying too much television landed me convinced I could go into marketing. While bouncing around in these I became obsessed with ‘Trading Spaces’ so started to dabble in interior design thinking this could be my path.
My father who plans everything to a tee, researches over and over, and measures everything analytically couldn’t handle this bouncing around and in-cohesive future planning. We went to a carnival together and I spotted a palm reader, usually something like this would never be worth even a second look for him. But this time he needed something, anything that would help me make a decision and land me on the right path.
As luck would have it I sat down, handed over my palm, and the first comment the palm reader had, “You will change careers halfway through life. I choked out a laugh and my poor dad threw his hands up in the air and walked a large circle in front of her tent. The one thing he though she could answer for him and me, was the first thing she shattered. The rest of the palm reading went as expected with some predictions and comments that rang true. But this whole split on my head line has always stuck with me.
I still think of it when I outline how to start my next book, develop each chapter, and find inspiration for other stories. I rub the split in my palm depicting the change in paths and mindsets, it’s incredible something could be so predestined and predicted on my skin. Finding the words and the books in me might not have come from the lines in my palm, but the seed was planted in my teenage mind.
I will never forget this prediction and time will tell on the accuracy of this palm reader.
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