Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves like locked rooms and like books that are written in a very foreign tongue. Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps you will find them gradually, without noticing it, and live along some distant day into the answer.
- Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet
The Supernatural remains ambiguous to society. Accordingly, many of us do not know what to make of other individuals who claim the power to see into one’s future. Some chose to ignore, while some choose to believe. ABC news reported on May 2010 that “The psychic industry is a $2 billion a year business… even after two decades of lawsuits, bad press and bankruptcies” (Noll). So something must be happening in the Psychic industry for it to stay so resilient. It must offer something. The question is: Is it a supernatural service?
That week on a cloudy Tuesday morning, I decide to drive up to the location. The cracked sidewalks in this section of the city do not see as many travelers as it hears noise form the zooming cars. Across from an old and practically abandoned Mix Bowl shop and next to decaying liquor store is the psychic’s location. The two story house made of wood painted beige rises over the shabby surroundings. Around, the property’s perimeter is a fence whose gate is left open. I get out of my car and approach the location. Facing out, to the street, a sign reads “Laura Psychic Palm Reading” with red roses painted in between. Its front lawn is intricately groomed. The grass on the property is in a growing, tender stage- radiating...
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After meeting Psychic Laura, I am left to wonder what role psychics serve in society. Call it the super natural or call it the power of a needed ear. A psychic’s services merely respond to the need of knowledge for the unpredictable that some individuals seek. Perhaps people pay to hear what they want to hear instead of accepting the truth. A psychic fills this void in society, and perhaps, that is why the industry is still around. We have a need to seek a voice when feeling down, and when there is no one to turn to, a Psychic is a call away even if it means $10 a minute.
Works Cited
Noll, Eric. "Former Psychic Reveals Tricks of the Trade." ABCNews.com - Breaking News, Latest News & Top Video News - ABC News. ABC, 9 May 2010. Web. 12 Feb. 2012. .
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