It happened a couple of days ago, though it had started a month ago. I was getting calls from particular number saying they are from some job portal which randomly selected my resume from other job portals and was shortlisted for a particular job. The calls always came with noises in the background. I never fully understood what they were talking about and I used to cut their call after a few seconds. This happened a lot of times. They call I talk for a second the audio cuts out and I cut the call. The fifth time they called the conversation was bit more longer. They asked what kind of a field was I looking forward to work and what was my preferences so as to help them filter jobs accordingly. That was it and then came no call for a couple of days. After two weeks I left with my family for a pilgrimage. Wonderful place I must say. A placed filled with so much of positive energy. When the wind blows at you from the holy ground you feel as if you are being cleansed. The winds, the soil, the air I breathed they carried a vibe which I haven't felt in years. I let myself embrace the winds of these holy grounds and I started believing in that particular source of energy. I gave my complete trust to the energy. I believed it was going to bring me good luck or better things ahead. It was on the way that I got a call from the number claiming to be from a job portal only this time it was a female voice. She asked me the usual questions said certain points from my resume to make me believe. The conversation lasted approx 20 mins. I listened and answered every once in a while in the first few minutes. Then she told me something which surprised me. She told me a major company had shortlisted my name for this particular designation. And I will be having my first phone interview with the company in 72 hours. I didn't quite believe the female. There was parts missing from what she said and I kept asking her a few things but her answers weren't really convincing. But I was happy to receive a call regarding a job that too soon after a pilgrimage.Next day she called and asked me to fill a from online. Then came another call from the same number this time it was a guy who spoke and he was giving me instructions about the site and filling the form. Then came the twist I was waiting for all this time. Payment. There was something about his voice that made me clear that he was no guy from the recruiting dept. He was agitated and was forcing me to do the online payment then and there itself. The unfortunate thing was I did not have a fast internet connection that enabled me to double tap things.Dongle net. Their site took time to open. I asked the guy to call later. Ten minutes later the site opened and came the call. He kept pestering me to do the payment of 1500 bucks as registration fees. I nodded and on checking it turned to 2000 bucks with the tax. He told me once you pay they will get me some job interviews in twenty days time but there was no guarantee that it would be a job of my choice. The payment tab was open in front of me and I was holding the card. The guy was beginning to lose patience. I told him I want to double check because I am not totally convinced. Something inside kept saying maybe I am losing it. I believed in the energy completely. Then something happened. The guy snapped and started blaming me for not doing the right thing. I decided to pay and found that was net was down. Then my laptop showed me an error message that it was shutting down due to some unknown problem. I sat facing a black screen. I told the guy on the phone the same and he muttered something and I cut his call. I was sad thinking had a lost an opportunity? It was only in the evening that I got home and was able to access the internet from a faster connection. Thankfully. I opened Google and even before I finished typing the their portals' name came a list of complaints from various people blaming the site to be fraud and the people to be cheats. Long story short. They call and ask you to do this and that payment till you reach a sum of 10000 and bang. You lose your money and hopes of getting a job. I read as many as 50 complaints from people from different parts of the country. They all had one thing in common. They were all duped of 10000 bucks. Then I slowly started to realize how close I had come of getting cheated by a bunch of A$%^&@* of my money. But it wasn't my brain that stopped me from doing it. It was something else. Something that came in the form of some energy that made my laptop to shutdown for no reason and saved me. My laptop had indeed turned into my savior. I realized the power of the energy I was believing in. How could it put me down when I believed it completely and how could it betray me? There was something beside me that moment for a second. I could feel it. It was a near experience with the supernatural or with nature or with something I believed in so much.
