"A feather in a hand..."

“A feather in a hand is better than a bird in the air”

I don’t usually pay attention to fortune cookies – I don’t believe in them. Every once in a while, you get one that’s kinda funny, but that’s rare. They’re never really anything special. However, not too long ago, I got one that read, “A feather in a hand is better than a bird in the air”. I wasn’t sure what it was trying to say. Usually, they just straight up say, “You’re going to die tomorrow” or something like that. But this one, nope! It had some deep, underlying thought and I wanted to know what it was. I had this…feeling, if you will…that it had something to do with the difference between reality and fiction, but I couldn’t quite make the connection…couldn’t make it fit. So I asked around the office. Most people just had no clue and gave up – didn’t even bother trying to figure it out. A few, however, pondered it for a few moments, but only to find themselves in the same boat as I. Days passed and I couldn’t let it go. Everyone else had forgotten about the saying, but it stuck with me and actually began to…bug me. I looked around online, but that was a waste of time – there was nothing. So I finally decide that the best person to ask is probably Chad. He’s like me…he’ll ponder it long enough to get it. It won’t just leave his mind after a few minutes like it did the others. So I ask him…a few minutes pass and I get a response: “Something worth less that you already have in your possession is better than something worth more that you might want.” That’s it! It makes perfect sense! How did he do it, I’ll never know. I’m content now, though – I feel no need to search for any other meaning for this one works fine for me.

Anywho, this whole post was written simply because Chad mentioned he’s the only one that is majoring in English and that statement made me feel the need to write. I didn’t know what to write about and expressed this to him…to which he said, “Write anything. That’s the beauty of writing. It can literally be anything you want. Sometimes I just write words, and that leads me to an idea from deep within my subconscious.” So that’s what I did. I near immediately thought of the little quote from the fortune cookie and decided to run with it. I'm not sure that it raised something up from within my subconscious, but just writing about the first thing that came to mind did fine. I feel better now that I wrote something. It's the curse of most Idealists...that need to just write.