Tomorrow’s Dawn

“No one knows the story of tomorrow’s dawn.”

Several years ago when we ate at a Chinese restaurant, my husband’s fortune cookie carried a most surprising message. No, it didn’t promise Howard unexpected riches, nor a trip around the world, nor a new romance. It was better, richer than that. The slip of paper in the fortune cookie says: “No one knows the story of tomorrow’s dawn.”   I use the word “says” because he saved the slip of paper and stuck it into his dresser mirror.

Isn’t the message profound? That philosophy has been expressed by others in many ways, but was it ever more poetically and succinctly put?

Even before the 9/11 terrorists’ attacks, we both, on occasion, were quoting that fortune cookie to friends, almost as if to remind ourselves. How we all tend to delude ourselves that we have control over our lives! Just look at our calendars—full of scribbled reminders to be at the appointed place at the appointed time. Nothing will deter us. Except, perhaps, the story of tomorrow’s dawn. . . . .

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