Today’s Chinese fortune cookie read: “A day of worry is more exhausting than a week of work.”
Among the fantastic restaurants here in the New Orleans area, there are some above-par Chinese buffets. My favorite these days is in Kenner, LA. It’s easy to eat ’til full (they have great fresh sushi!). There’s not room in my ‘lil tummy to eat the fortune cookie that comes out with the bill. So I save them up at the house until I have a craving now and then for a bit of sweet. Unfortunately, by the time I usually get around to cracking the cookie open, it is stale since I don’t eat sweets very often. But it is always fun to read the little strip of paper included in the cookie.
Do you believe in these fortune cookie things? This particular saying struck home to me because this week started off as the pits for me. I had a very stressful Monday (problems with internet connection speed running at 1/100th it should have been; seems due to some kind of glitch in the AT&T settings for my business account, but it took hours on phone and a couple of days to get this worked out with them). And now I’ve been struggling the rest of this week with exhaustion.
So finally here on Thursday of this week, I spent part of today getting back to “dirt”. Planted tomatoes, banana peppers, okra, and Thai basil. Just moving and getting back to nature helps me relax from all that worrying and exhaustion.
Why do I let those kind of things worry me and bring me down? Life is too short, they say, right? Still, when things are going seemingly wrong, it is difficult to see the sun for the clouds. Please feel to share our stories, too.
Jackie, thanks for sharing – that is so true! I spent all day Wednesday wallowing in worry – I was just overwhelmed by a ton of bricks all at once. But yesterday I did half a week’s worth of work, and instead of feeling drained, I felt energized.
As far as fortunes go, I don’t really believe in them, but I have found some to be true. When I was about to move long-distance and I took my replacement out to lunch, I got a fortune that said something like, “What are you waiting for? Now is the time to move!” and she got something along the lines of, “Stick around! You will succeed.” It was so ironic, because I had been considering staying instead of leaving, and she was considering bailing on the job.