Fortune cookie

So I was in San Francisco last weekend, pics to come, and I bought two bags of chocolate/regular fortune cookies from a little fortune cookie factory/sweat shop in china town. So I crack one open just know and the fortune is:

Seek out the significance of your problem at this time.
Try to understand.

What the hell is that? My fortune pretty much told me to deal with it, what ever it is. The reason I go to the fortune cookie is to understand life's mysteries.