Psychic Solutions

In life and especially going into Senior year everyone one has questions. I, as much as anyone, wonder “Where am I gonna go to college? What’s the perfect job for me? Will I ever find my soulmate?” And it is hard not to feel lost. I talked to my friends and family and they couldn’t tell me anything concrete. I read articles about where I should go to college and took quizzes telling me which job I was best suited for but it all felt so nuanced and complex. I needed answers.

One day while I was walking through the streets of Westport, I saw a sign saying “Janet Planet - Psychic Readings” I initially ignored it but I kept thinking about it. But I caved, I called Ms. Planet. She greeted me with a smile. She said the Cosmos had felt my disturbed aura.

After an arduous week of waiting, it was time. I was gonna meet Janet Planet. I walked up the stairs in Prospero’s Books and I saw her. She had curly bleach blonde hair, iridescent blue eyes and a beauty mark at the top of her left cheek. She was wearing an ornate white blouse and was clad in turquoise jewelry. Immediately she recognized me and called me over to her table. She looked deep into my eyes and then shut hers, as they would remain for the rest of the reading.

I was a little skeptical at first. She opened by talking about how she felt a strong line of men in my family. Something that you could say about anyone. But I didn’t come to learn things I already knew.I wanted to know my future. Much to my surprise, she told me that I might be ready to settle down.. I replied that I was only seventeen, which seemed to surprise Janet and the spirits she was in communication with. Nevertheless, if I was destined to settle down I needed to know who my Soulmate was. The spirits told Janet that I was destined to be with a woman that I was around but I never saw (to my current partner’s dismay). A woman that was always in a place right before I was there. While I was rationalizing what she said, I was cut-off. Janet had found the path of my future.

She told me to grab a sheet of beige paper. I turned it over and saw it was labeled “FOOD TRUCK”. All of the sudden, something shifted. The Spirits had made their decision:I was destined to be a food truck vendor. I asked Janet if there was a mistake about the card, but it was final. I was to spend my days selling gyros from a mobile restaurant.

But that wasn’t all, I needed to know where. I asked Janet what city my food truck would roam the streets of but the spirits seemed to have trouble conjuring. I willed for a place of warmth and suddenly, she coughed (a spirit lurking in her lungs, she explained). The spirits had obliged: I was to move to Guam. I was going to run a gyro-selling food truck in Guam. My life has been set right in front of me.

Suddenly,the spirits relented and she promptly collected payment as the next spirits of the next subject entered her body. I embraced the women who told me what my life was supposed to become and I walked out a changed man.

All my concerns about what I want to study or what my life was supposed to become are resolved. There are no overwhelming questions in my life. Just dreams of Gyros and Guam.