i have a ritual when it comes to fortune cookies. i crack it in half with the pointy sides facing me. i eat the left half, with the fortune poking out of the other half. it is exciting as i eat the cookie because the fortune is right there, teasing me, and i can only read some of the lucky numbers. i eat the half quickly and then pull out the fortune and read it as i eat the remaining half.
i followed the steps as usual today. sometimes the fortune is phrased more as advice. this fortune read "Write a thank you note to someone today." i showed it to my best friend and wondered who i would write this note to.
about 3 hours later i got accepted into my dream school, vassar college. i was on a tennis court with my best friend, shaking, but i was at the deli when i got the email to check the portal. i waited for my pastrami sandwich and ran back to the court. i left behind my deli companions because they did not understand my state of panic.
after the tennis game and a lot of screaming me and my bestfriend went to the oculus at world trade center. we were meandering in the mall when we ran into 2 girls from our school. they told us that there was an art exhibit in the mall called the stranger project, where you can read and write anonymous letters put on display. i realized this is where my thank you note would be written.
i wrote my letter to my five friends, thanking them for this intersection of our lives. vassar's acceptance was such a surreal experience but mainly because i realized that the next 4 years of my life would be drastically different, and i began to prematurely mourn my current life. so i thanked my five core friends for the time we have had and the fleeting months we have left. i wrote about how sometimes we make each other go through hell but i will miss hell.
later i went out to dinner with my family to celebrate. my mom had me write 3 thank you texts to the people who helped me with my application. i just ended up thanking a lot of people today. and thank you vassar if you're seeing this (and didn't delete the file with this link even though I asked).
so was the fortune cookie cosmic fate? i think a lot of cosmic things have been happening to me lately. i wrote about intuition last post a bit and the next day i got a fortune that said "Trust in your intuition; it is your compass." i am not sure what to make of this spiritual awakening (although i don't feel awake spiritually, i feel spiritually bombarded). i guess i will update on the behavior of my cosmos.
here's proof of my fortunes:
'i cant believe i had a packed lunch and a college acceptance in the same day.
