Soon, you will receive...

About 10 years ago, my husband and I were eating at a local favorite Asian restaurant. The meal was delicious as usual, and the waitress brought the check with two fortune cookies. I forget what my husband's fortune was, but my fortune was one I have never forgotten. It said "Soon, you will receive" and that was it.

I stared at this little piece of paper for a few minutes trying to figure out if that was the whole fortune, or if it was a partial fortune. I would receive, what? My inner grammar police kicked in and noticed there was no final punctuation to the sentence, indicating it must not be the whole fortune.

We laughed and wondered what the rest of the fortune was supposed to be. We recalled other instances in which there would be more than one fortune in the cookie or none at all. We shook it off as one of those quirky things that happens sometimes with those silly little cookies.

The picture I took of it and subsequent funny social post about it have been lost to time, but the message has remained with me all these years. What a hopeful and inspiring message!

Soon, I will receive...