I went to a Chinese restaurant the other night. When I opened my fortune cookie, I was perplexed to find that there wasn't a little paper inside. Everyone else at the table had a fortune in theirs, but somehow, I didn't. It's been a few days now, and nothing's happened. At first, I thought that meant that I was in the clear, because if you don't get a fortune in your fortune cookie, common sense dictates that surely your fortune is so horrible that the factory could not print yours down on paper for fear of liability issues. Yet, now I'm starting to wonder if the fact that nothing is happening is, indeed, my fortune. I go to work, I come home, I go to sleep, and then I go to work again, so I can come home, etc. Damn those fortune cookies.
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Never underestimate the power of the fortune cookie...
I was once working to plan this big event - it was going to be the biggest adventure in the history of my school. My friends and I had spent hours upon hours putting it together. One evening as the day was approaching we found ourselves in one of those stores that sold Magic 8-balls. We decided to ask for a sign...
We asked if the event would be a success. "My Sources say 'No'" proclaimed the 8-ball. "Will it suck?" we asked, now a little anxious. "Definately," pronounced the oracular sphere. We returned home discouraged.
Later that week one of my friends received an omen. He went out for Chinese food and broke open his fortune cookie to find not one, but two fortunes. He took this as a great portent.
The first fortune read, "Look not to the things of the past" which we took to mean - don't listen to the 8-ball. The second fortune read, "The project you are working on will be a success." We were thrilled!
A week later after the event had come off - gloriously as envisioned we returned to the sellers of the nefarious false prophet. We threw the not-so-magic 8-ball on the ground and danced around it - taunting it mercilessly. We had found true oracular wisdom - from the fortune cookie...
Maybe your fortune ended up in Dave's cookie all those years ago? Maybe there's some kind of cosmic fortune-cookie karma that demands balance. For every two-fortune cookie there must be one empty of fortune.
Or maybe your destiny is great - but yet to be written. Your fate is not sealed. The fortune cookie is an omen that you have the power to choose - to write your own fortune...
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