Horoscope

Don't ask me why but sometimes I believe in horoscopes, though as a Muslim I'm not allowed to believe in someone reading my fate.

Maybe it's the broadness of a horoscope prediction (more so statement), that makes it coincidental. They won't tell you that you'll win a lucky draw, or you'll miss a bus or be late for an appointment. Instead they make their statements ambiguous so that at times you seem to be put in the situation. But I believe it's all in the interpretation.

However not all of them are true. They are just generalisation.

Just today, in the papers, my horoscope reads,

'In chess - as in life - you have to let go of some key pieces in order to gain something of greater value. The decision may be fraught with emotion but you have to ask yourself: Can you afford to lose?'

Just one of the fates I must fight...