Peter Answers ( a.k.a Peter Plays )

It is a profound yet depressing experience to see how much we yearn for someone to tell us the answers for us. Looking powerless at the hands of our own fate, even though it may be in our hands. Given the fact that yes although invisible, but yet still within grasp.

For days, there had been a havoc going around in our office about a site called "peteranswers" that seems to answer everything accurate. Only to selected individuals though, supposedly through a psychic connection it accomplishes with the one writing the questions. Later that day, I found out the trick ( or the actual truth behind it being fake. ) Since a couple of jokers around at the office still wanted to take pleasure out of the joke, they requested me not to reveal the mystery behind it, so I kept to myself for their sake of seemingly harmless fun. Meanwhile, I found it as a nice opportunity to help a couple of people gain courage through the comfort of it coming through a source which they had come to relie on as being credible, where in reality they were my suggestions as if they were coming from Peter. After I had accomplished my motive, I proclaimed to have lost the "psychic" connection so that no one else would come to me as I didnt feel comfortable making a fool out of someone (pardon my earlier confession, for it was done for someones betterment totally) just to drive pleasure. Next day at the office the whole office was under currently buzzing with the "words of peter", as I was just about to get up to leave for some work, my extension rang. I picked up to hear a familiar voice of a lady whom I only exchange morning greetings as I enter office every morning, she works at the front desk so she doesnt have access to PC or can use the computers. She wanted to ask me of a favour since she heard I was one of the people whom Peter talked to. Since I was in a hurry I didnt realize what was going to hit me next and so I off-handedly said, "sure", thinking I will let her know in person when I whiz by her on the way in a couple of minutes. The questions she asked me made a thump on my heart and made me only reply with a hasty "i'll try" and put the phone down. She was so hopeful that her concerns will be answered in just a while that I couldnt get the courage to tell her that it was fake. It was heartening to see the expresion althought she was smiling still when I told her about the site unability to in actual answer the questions.


What started out as a joke decided to made me learn an imperative lesson and also made me realize an important revelation. All of us are constantly searching for answers, each of us have a story to tell, we all really are infact a novel no best seller could ever match up to. Life is all about undying hope at the face of great uncertainty ( revelation that came to me through certain questions people were asking 'Peter'). We should be strong enough to know the answers to our own questions, if not then we should use the power within us to make answers to those questions as we would want them to be and not relie on some Peter, Tom, Dick or Harry whatever he may be.