![]() ![]() The fluorescent lights that turned day into night into everything-is-unknown. The slimy film of anti-bacterial gel left over on my palms after a visit. So many pieces of this story were too familiar to me. We both wanted and didn’t want to talk about how this could play out. Nick and I were leafing through wilted magazines, while the doctor delivered his “next steps” proclamation inside. One of our best friends from childhood was going through chemo. Ironically, just a few weeks ago, it was Nick and I in the waiting room of Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center together. And just like Midas’s gift/curse, it never really worked. Blaming myself was a torturous way of trying to distract myself from grief. I knew there was no way I ever intended to harm my mom, or anyone for that matter. A handful more deaths too - including my mother’s, which ripped my world apart. It took about 10 years and thousands of dollars in therapy to dissect and disprove my Sadim Touch theory. I quickly grew petrified of my powers too. To be honest, I didn’t blame Nick for locking his doors and finding a new hiding place for his spare key. When I asked if he was okay with me, Nick’s icy shrugs gave a clear response. I was killing off the village of not only Salem but also our suburb in Westchester County, N.Y., one by one. Nick obviously sensed my lethal pheromones and was on high alert. When we were in rehearsal, he said his lines while his eyes raced around to anywhere but my face. ![]() Only, after my step-dad died and I had to miss play practice for a week, Nick stopped talking to me. We’d been friends since first grade and I knew where his spare key was hidden in his backyard. My friend Nick played my tortured romantic partner, John Proctor. I was pretty thrilled to be cast in “The Crucible” as Abigail, the evil seductress who sends a bunch of people to their early graves because she claims they’re witches in Salem, Mass. Important Guidelines for Large Adult Orphans How I’m Creating the Grief Vocabulary My Language Doesn’t Have When she told me the news I remember saying, “Does this mean I have to skip play practice?” My mom was in the principal’s office looking like a crumpled tissue. I found out about my step-dad’s heart attack during an 11th grade math test. ![]() Why else would everyone around me be dropping like flies? Though I wasn’t that close with my step-dad - Who are you? Waltzing in here and acting like you love my mom and me and pretending to be as awesome as my dead dad? - I think in some ways, his death sealed the deal for me. Then my step-dad keeled over from a heart attack when he stepped off the morning train. That was followed swiftly by the death of another aunt, then a neighbor. Less than a year later, my dad’s lungs got clogged with cancer and gave out. My aunt had an aneurysm in her sleep and died when I was 10. Just Midas backwards, because it felt like everything or everyone I touched got snuffed out. I spent the first 25 years of my life pretty convinced I had the Sadim Touch. Not to mention the fact that “Double A (beep-beep) M-C-O” is catchier. Join us and start receiving in depth market analysis & profitable investment ideas by signing up for our free newsletter.Fast-forward a bunch of centuries, when The Muffler Installation Dealers’ Associated Service (MIDAS) decided to borrow just the glittery parts of the story and make their slogan “Trust the Midas Touch.” But the whole point of Midas’s story was that it wasn’t such a great touch after all. We believe that investors & traders need to focus on their mental state to process their investments in the best possible way. We approach the markets from an objective rational and risk averse point of view and avoid any bias towards long or short. While our main focus currently is on the precious metal sector including mining stocks and on bitcoin and other crypto currencies we do track all markets worldwide and are always in search of excellence and therefore lucrative ideas & opportunities. We do offer investment consulting for institutional & private investors and traders via our market reports, chart books, newsletters, technical analysis as well as via our unique Midas Touch Gold Model and of course our free Telegram channel. Our mission is to help investors and traders to become more profitable & wealthy. Welcome to the official website of Midas Touch Consulting. ![]()
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