I decided last night to start this blog. Basically, I've had a pretty bad year in 2012. I won't go into it too much because it might bore you, but let's just say I changed jobs three times, felt as though I messed up my career and moved house four times - each time in a different city spread across the UK - only to end up back where I started at the start of 2012.
Yes I agree, it could be worse. I haven't had my heart broken this year, nor have I lost anyone close to me. But the constant upheaval in my life this year damaged my mental well-being, to the point where this summer I genuinely thought I was going to top myself at some point.
I thought each time I was making the right decision. As it happens, I never did. But I just tried to follow my heart... as it happens, my heart was bloody wrong.
Being a skeptic, I never read my horoscopes. But if I did, I wonder whether I would have been taken down a completely different path in 2012. For example, would I have left my job which I actually loved to move away from my friends and family to try something different? What about if I didn't give up when I was at my lowest point last summer?
So throughout 2013, I'm going to read my horoscopes daily and see where it takes me or if anything comes true. And I'm going to blog about it, either to satisfy fellow skeptics or start a debate with believers.
This I shall call the Horoscope Test. (Yes I know, it's not exactly the most exciting of names - but I was thinking about it for a long time! If anyone comes up with a better name, please let me know!)
I might also see a clairvoyant or go to Spiritualist church at some point in 2013 and see how true that is...
You never know - I could end up a millionaire by the end of 2013 because Mystic Meg told me to play some lucky Lottery numbers. (Here's hoping.)
Or maybe I'll become a believer and spend the rest of my life living by my horoscopes.
Here we go...
Yes I agree, it could be worse. I haven't had my heart broken this year, nor have I lost anyone close to me. But the constant upheaval in my life this year damaged my mental well-being, to the point where this summer I genuinely thought I was going to top myself at some point.
I thought each time I was making the right decision. As it happens, I never did. But I just tried to follow my heart... as it happens, my heart was bloody wrong.
Being a skeptic, I never read my horoscopes. But if I did, I wonder whether I would have been taken down a completely different path in 2012. For example, would I have left my job which I actually loved to move away from my friends and family to try something different? What about if I didn't give up when I was at my lowest point last summer?
So throughout 2013, I'm going to read my horoscopes daily and see where it takes me or if anything comes true. And I'm going to blog about it, either to satisfy fellow skeptics or start a debate with believers.
This I shall call the Horoscope Test. (Yes I know, it's not exactly the most exciting of names - but I was thinking about it for a long time! If anyone comes up with a better name, please let me know!)
I might also see a clairvoyant or go to Spiritualist church at some point in 2013 and see how true that is...
You never know - I could end up a millionaire by the end of 2013 because Mystic Meg told me to play some lucky Lottery numbers. (Here's hoping.)
Or maybe I'll become a believer and spend the rest of my life living by my horoscopes.
Here we go...
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