Your unlimited patience will be rewarded sooner or later

So it said my fortune cookie yesterday.
I love fortune cookies. Out of those crusty shells, they have spat out incredibly timely and accurate messages time and time again when I found myself at decisive moments in my life.

"He loves you as much as he can. But he cannot love very much." was thrown in my face when I was trying to rebuild a failed relationship with a man (boy) who couldn't stop sleeping with other women.

"You are going to a sunshine city." A very nice heads up, a few days before I received a rejection letter from MIT and I attended a graduate school in Florida.

I am, officially, a physicist. At my job and in my private life with my husband, a research engineer, there is no space for paranormal phenomena. There are no miracles, no magic, nothing incredible happens in nature. If you are surprised, that's because you just don't understand the underlying laws of physics that lead to the events unfolding before you. Intellectual inaptitude should not be covered up by provoking a "higher order" in the universe.

So there's nothing mysterious about fortune cookies, of course. Fortunes found in them are always, almost always, written in a form of suggestive statements. They can be interpreted in many ways. Even blatantly stupid and wrong statements, e.g. "you will become rich tomorrow" or "your mom is a man" can become metaphorically true.... But mostly they give you boring advices, e.g. "be good to your neighbors and they'll be good to you". What's so fortune about this statement anyway? Nothing, really. Or is it?
Well, fortune is in the eyes (or hands) of beholder. If you are desparately searching for fortune, then you are likely to find yours in those little edible aberrant polyhedron. (hey, actually, I don't think I've ever eaten one). For nothing else, fortune cookies can give you a refreshing point-of-view to your current situation. And sometimes, we all just need to step back and get a better view of ourselves.

And now it's about me. I am in a dire need of 'fortune' right now. My career is not -propsering- and I doubt that it ever will if I stay where I am and continue to do what I do. I do not like where I live. My kid's having problems at school. I need a change. A big change. Maybe a multiple number of changes. New ideas, so I can bring the changes I need so desparately.

I open my fortune cookies. But there's a problem. Here in France, Chinese restaurants do not share this custom of giving away fortune cookies. Solution? I resort to fortune cookies on .... internet.

"Your unlimited patience will be rewarded sooner or later."
...........................mmmmKay........................................
Oh, I like this one. It's much much better than the one from last week that said "Flattery will get you far tonight". Yes, I have been patient. And I am going to get rewarded! Hell with 'getting different perspectives and to effectively use them to improve my life'. I want my reward now. I have been good, yes sir, I have. Since I read this 'fortune' I open every email with great enthusiasm, thinking "this message may contain my reward" and close each email with equally great dissapointment.

Silly, I know. But fun, I must admit.

Time to get back to work, as the fortune cookie from two weeks ago said: "The best days are the days you work". And who knows, my reward may come after my death and the cookie will still have told the truth.