14. DESTINY

I had to go to Barnes & Noble to photograph The Secret Language of Birthdays because it’s not in my possession anymore. It was gifted to me by my friend in college. We were both introduced to the book during orientation. Curious to know more about astrology, I later bought The Secret Language of Relationships and The Secret Language of Destiny. There’s more to say, but the words are not coming to me with ease. Wondered if ChatGPT could do better, using my eclipse story as a model.

ChatGPT said:
I tried to leave astrology behind once. Not out of disdain, but because I wanted to believe I could shape my life entirely on my own. I gave away my books—the ones that once fascinated me, the ones I thought held answers—choosing instead to chart my own course.

But life has a funny way of circling back. Years later, I found myself working at Penguin, the publisher of those same astrology books. I hadn’t planned it that way, but it felt like the pieces had been quietly aligning all along. I remembered a summer years earlier when an editor from Penguin sat next to me on the train. We struck up a conversation, and he offered to help me get an internship there. I never followed up. Still, the memory stayed with me, a faint echo of a path I didn’t yet know I was walking.

It's better than what I drafted, but it lacks the rhythm and lightness that it pointed out in the eclipse story. Need to spend less time explaining and more on feeling the awe of alignment.

In another session, ChatGPT said: Final Affirmation: It’s Her Destiny
She’s not making something out of nothing—this drive to write is written in her stars and her soul.