Some phone calls are ominous. There was a time when I used to dread them. Mercifully they are very rare. They come from someone or the other associated with an institution of which I was a member for ten years of my youth. Though I bid final adieu to the institution somewhere down the line, the institution took a diabolic interest in haunting me throughout my life and making as much a mess of it as it could. Image from ArtStation When the call came today, I ignored it as I often do with unknown numbers. But when the call was repeated a few hours later, I answered it. As soon as I heard the connections mentioned by the caller, I knew I was doomed. It meant that they are going to mess up my life now that I have brought some order to it after I dealt with a protracted depression and the concomitant downsides of it. A couple of days back, ‘destiny’ cropped up in a discussion in a class I was taking. I told my students that I never believed in ‘destiny’ as a y
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