If you are one of the few people that don’t channel surf during advertisements, you might have encountered what I’m about to write.
The advertisements pretty much sound the same: “type in xxx, yyy and zzz to 1234″ and you’ll receive a reply which will reveal to you what your future holds. Finding out what you and your partner’s baby’s ideal name is; whether you and your partner have a high success rate of keeping the relationship; what day you’ll die. (morbid much?)
I’ve always wondered why companies even bother putting out such advertisements on the telly. What kind of people get sucked into such scams? Sure, it may just cost you $0.99 cents per message. But read the fine print: all with a simple one-time subscription fee of $10.55. Now that just doesn’t make any sense. A total of $11.54 spent to be given a random computer generated answer?
Then again, I find this similar to the idea of psychics with their crystal balls and tarot cards. Call me a sceptic, but I do not believe in such notions of predicting the future and other people knowing what will happen in your life.
Ultimately, your decisions and actions mould what your future will be. A split second can change everything.
Mark Victor Hansen, a motivational speaker said:
“You control your future, your destiny. What you think about comes about. By recording your dreams and goals on paper, you set in motion the process of becoming the person you most want to be. Put your future in good hands – your own.”
Clichéd I know, but it’s true. Then again, I think motivational speakers are a scam as well. But that’s for another sceptical rant.
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