Asegúrate de que la fortuna que buscas es la fortuna que necesitas.

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#1

Help please. It seems like if you said you are making sure or you are sure then buscas would be correct. However you are advising/recommending so why not busques?

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#2

For me both work here, but with a small meaning difference.

Asegúrate de que la fortuna que buscas es la fortuna que necesitas. = Talking about now. Present.

Asegúrate de que la fortuna que busques es la fortuna que necesitas. = Future.

btw you can also use subjunctive: que buscas sea / que busques sea.

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#3

I would focus on the verb “ser” in this sentence, rather than “buscar” since the advice/recommendation is about making sure that “A is B”. The objects “la fortuna que buscas” and “la fortuna que necesitas” aren’t affected by the recommendation.

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#4

thank you, that is kind of what I was thinking.

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#5

thank you-very interesting.

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#6

I can find examples of both the indicative and the subjunctive after “asegúrate de que” in the corpus, even by the same author, so it seems the subjunctive is optional.

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