Quote of the Day (and if you know what it's meant to mean, please explain it to me!)

[edenfalling]

Things don't just happen; they happen just.
---from the fortune cookie in tonight's Chinese takeout


???

Comments

[edenfalling]

Could work!

[joisbishmyoga.livejournal.com]

Things don't happen randomly, they occur because of your karma.

Alt., how you cope with circumstance gives you the results you deserve.

[bewize.livejournal.com]

This. Also a bit of what goes around comes around, maybe.

[edenfalling]

*tilts head* I can see that. And wow, is that fortune a bad way to phrase that idea.

[darksideofstorm.livejournal.com]

"You deserve everything you get." Which, y'know, nice.

[edenfalling]

...The way you phrase that reminds me of the slogan over the gate of Buchenwald, which is, IIRC, "Jedem das Seine," which can mean either "to each his own" or, implicitly, "You get what you deserve." Um. *eyes fortune warily*

[hungrytiger11.livejournal.com]

I think it means whoever wrote and/or translated that cookie was not very good at English sentence grammar and maybe didn't realize word order mattered. Um, that's my vote anyway.

[edenfalling]

Yeah, clearly there is a mismatch between the writer's thought and hir ability to convey that thought in clear English. :-(