After excitedly waiting all day to see what my fortune cookie was from lunch, the hour finally arrived! i got to eat the cookie! i excitedly opened the little wrapper and broke the cookie open but quickly laid aside the fortune without reading it (you have to save that part for last or the fortune won't come true right?!?)
As I intensely finished the cookie anticipating the enlightening revelation i was surely about to partake of, i stared at the back of the fortune for a few minutes. i thought to myself: "Why am i so excited to read the fortune anyway? Is the message really so profound? Is it really going to teach me something i don't already know?" i know it sounds crazy but i think I realized something very important as i pondered my excitement over the cookie, i learned that i shouldn't rely so much on what others do or say to motivate me or help me feel good about myself. After a few minutes i did something i never thought i would do...i threw away the fortune without reading it!
i decided that i want to have a better self image and relationship with myself, I want to feel that i am capable of chasing my dreams and accomplishing anything i want without needing a cheap fortune cookie to convince me of it.
"Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy."
~Norman Vincent Peale
You may think that i am overreacting to the situation, but the lesson was profound, and it's not that I will never eat or read another fortune cookie (i love Chinese food!) but I have a renewed sense of self confidence and it's importance to me in my success.
We always need to seek counsel and help from others (we could never weather this path alone) but we must never underestimate the power of confidence and faith in ourselves. So get out there and be the amazing person that deep down you know you are (even though you may not always believe it!)
how many capitalized i's are there in this blog??? comment if you think you know!
