A Fortunate Day

Everyone loves a fortune cookie right? Thru the years you may have added two certain words to the end of each fortune, or asked everyone at the table to crack open the cookie at the same time for good luck. Nonetheless it’s the highlight of every meal at any Asian eatery. Typically these fortunes center on love, riches and/or power. The wisdom and prophecy causes you to think internally for the following 60 seconds seeing if this one sentence certainly applies to your life or not. I personally am a sucker for these bits of truth, or lack thereof. My fortune today over lunch read, "You believe in the goodness of mankind."

Recently I enjoyed dinner with a friend at a local Chinese restaurant. As history would prove most fortunes from those simple cookies apply to my life dead on. I rarely receive an unfortunate cookie. I tore into my cookie after dinner to receive “You will bring sunshine into someone’s life.” Yes, this is a pretty general statement applying to most everyone. My friend opens hers, frowned and quickly threw it down on her nearly empty plate. “Now hold on, you can’t do that,” I say. “Where’s the fun in that?” I retrieved her fortune and read, “Good things come to those who wait. Be patient.” How ironic is that? Her fortune centered on patience yet she acted like a six year old that has no idea what patience is. She was uninterested in her fortune, come to find out, because she has no patience for anything.

Every time I retrieve a fortune from a cookie I end up keeping it. There are times you could open my wallet and find three or four placed in there. I do nothing with them, except pile them up in a cup at work. Soon I’ll do something creative with them. I had two friends in college once make a homemade card for me using several fortunes glued onto the card. It read, “We hope you have a fortunate day.” Do you have any ideas on what to do with my fortune collection?