The Pearls of Catharsis Times Issue 01, Oct 2016 | Page 9

THE PERFECT GUY FOR AUTUMN

It ’ s spring on this side of the world and this isn ’ t the first time Vani has asked for autumn in spring , just last spring she asked for a poem about autumn , I think it ’ s her favourite season it ’ s mine as well but I was born in autumn so that explains it , I don ’ t know what her excuse is . Disclaimer : I didn ’ t know what to write . In my mind I kept repeating these words like a mantra : something magazine-y ( I am making that a word ), something about autumn , rebirth and the likes … After several hours this was the last of the two things that I came up with so I ’ m not really hoping you enjoy it but maybe just that you sit through the whole thing . The weather is not only about how windy it is outside but it seems as though it also sparks certain behaviour in people . Economists study the relationship between the seasons and consumer behaviour in order to form a basis for predicting demand for certain products during that season ( not that one needs a study for some of the data collected i . e . it is only logical that one is more likely to buy a heater in winter than any other season ). Albeit , they have been able to tell which product will be bought when and how much of it will be bought by studying weather patterns . Seeing how well it worked out for the economist , I decided to do my own seasonal preference short story for all the love struck pearls putting themselves out there , in the gusty market !