They say the signature can turn your life line. In the Tamil proverb, it reads ( உண் கையெழுத்து தலை எழுத்தையும் மாற்றும்; or உங்கள் கையொப்பம் உங்கள் விதியை மாற்ற முடியும் ); literal translation: your hand line [signature] can change your headline [fate]. The Indians believe that on the inner aspect of our skull, our lifeline or our destiny is written. Just like how a game of dice became the change maker of the propriety of a kingdom, with a literal stroke of the pen, a prince can be a pauper. I vividly remember this mantra frequently being uttered by my elders during my childhood. Early in my working life, I met a colleague who dragged life wearing a perpetual remorseful look and carrying on his shoulders a mountain and guilt and regrets. In his days of naivety when a good friend is one whom one could enjoy a good drink, he had stood guarantor, or rather, inked his signature above the dotted lines certifying what may that he would stand in front of his friend (guarantee) ...
It is all Mimesis