Preparing for the Unexpected.

Time: 3:15 PM
Place: Santa Clarita, CA
Weather: Raining (for real)

A few weeks ago I was in San Francisco with my teammate, his family, and some friends. It was one of those nights- you know, a little bit too much alcohol, a little too forward with my questions- but all in all a grand time, a memory created. However, on that night, as I was trying to keep my clumsy self together I stumbled... upon a fortune on the ground. Why I picked it up wasn't the weird part, that's just something I normally do... but what it said struck me in the weeks that followed.

"It would be wise to prepare for the unexpected."-The Great Insightful Panda Express

When I lifted this little white piece of paper from the ground I thought nothing of it,  and simply put it in my wallet. But as time went on and things around me started to unexpectedly change I thought-hmmmm... could a fortune really have been correct?

On a side note- Do we ever remember the wishes we made on those shooting stars, that broken wishbone, those blown eye lashes, or those made at 11:11? Do we remember the fortunes we find?
Or is it that things never really strike us as "coming true" until they are actually happening?

So, I got to thinking about this fortune- whether it was good/bad/neutral or had no meaning at all. Because how does one prepare for the unexpected if we don't know what it is going to entail? We can't live our lives frightened of what will occur next and we can't live ruthlessly without being somewhat responsible- and that just leaves the present. But living in the present sounds so New Age Hipster, I'm getting sick of it already. All that is left is simply understanding, understanding that we can't have expectations of what's coming. Hence we live with the continuation of doing what we love and realizing that what ever the outcome, we are further than we were before. The unexpected could be positive or negative, but in the end we will learn from it, grow from it, and move forward.

In conclusion, it would be wise to not pick up any more drunken fortunes around SF.
Or it would be wise to prepare for the next unexpected fortune.