Back in my engineering college days, I was labelled as the person with the ability to make things come true (unfortunately, only bad things) by saying them. It has happenned more than once that I would make a thoughtless comment and it would just come true. Once a friend(Sankar) was going back home from college and I asked him to drive carefully. He met with an accident on the way. Another time, I asked a friend (Smitha) if she was scared of getting a shock from the various current sources in the electrical machines lab. We were preparing for the exam when I asked her this and she said that she was not scared at all. She really wasn't but she did get an electric shock on the day of the exam. ( Nothing bad happenned but she was convinced that I had the power to make terrible things come true by saying them :D ) There are more, but I'll limit the examples to two. Whenever I think about these incidents, I get stuck in a loop of cause and effect. Could they have been rel...