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January 20, 2010 / Wednesday
Fortune
I found a fortune on the ground the other day. It read:
The care and sensitivity you show towards others will return to you.
I liked it, so I kept it. Then I thought, it's a lot more appropriate to find a fortune on the ground than to pull one out of a mass-produced cookie.
That was a few days ago.
Today, I discovered I'd left my hockey sticks at the rink in San Jose after my game on Monday. I returned to the rink in hopes of finding them, but I fully expected to have to buy replacements.
I went to the front desk to ask where lost and found was. My teammate happened to be on shift, and when she heard what had happened she pretty much wrote off my chances of ever seeing my sticks again too. Same for the guy at lost and found. He looked skeptical, but he asked me to describe my sticks and went out back to look for them.
A little while later, he returned with my sticks. "You are really lucky," he said, and boy did I know it. I have no idea who turned them in, but I am ever so grateful. Since I don't know who to pay back, I promised myself I'd pay it forward.
When I sat down at my desk later I saw the fortune I'd saved. My original interpretation of the fortune was in a simple back and forth sense, but I see now that those arrows can go in every which way. Maybe it's karma, maybe it's luck. Maybe it's nothing at all. Objectively, karma and luck are like religion to me; they're just concepts we humans use to explain the inexplicable. Regardless, someone was honest and thoughtful enough to take my sticks to lost and found. That someone made my world a better place. I hope that my actions, past and future, do the same for others.
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