Poor Unfortunate Soul

Part of the rea­son I blog is for a sec­ond mem­ory for myself. I can go back to old posts and recall events and my feel­ings on them with much bet­ter accu­racy than with my brain alone. Unfor­tu­nately, in last year’s Lunar New Year post, I wrote before going to tem­ple, so I don’t remem­ber what exactly my for­tunes said. All I remem­ber is that when I went to one tem­ple, I got a for­tune that told me some­thing to the effect of “You will have to work harder to suc­ceed.” At the sec­ond tem­ple, the monk gave me a for­tune that said I would have a rough year. Look­ing back, although I did not progress as much as I would have liked in some aspects of my life, I am happy with how it went over­all, and espe­cially with my time in Min­nesota. It was great to recon­nect with the fam­ily over there, since I rarely get a chance to see them.

This year, when I went to the first tem­ple, I asked three things. First, I asked if I should move with my par­ents back to Min­nesota this sum­mer. The way I under­stood his inter­pre­ta­tion of the for­tune, my fam­ily is in a good place right now, so I shouldn’t move. Next, I asked if I would find some­one spe­cial this year. The first thing the guy asked me, even before I told him what my ques­tion was, was whether I had a girl­friend or was about to set­tle down. So I guess that means good things in the dat­ing depart­ment? The final thing I asked for was help get­ting into law school. The guy told me I needed to be like water and go with the flow where ever life takes me. I’m not sure that’s a good answer, but at least it’s not a straight up no?

At the sec­ond tem­ple, the monk just hands you a for­tune inside a red enve­lope, so you can’t really ask for any­thing in par­tic­u­lar. I got a bad for­tune, and asked my dad to explain the para­ble to me. He told me it was the same exact one he got, and then we found out that my mom got another bad one, and the three of us all got bad ones last year, too. We are now slightly sus­pi­cious about the for­tunes of the sec­ond tem­ple.

Any­one else get your for­tune told today?

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