there can be only one.
on my lunch excursion today, i went to Wan Fu with co-workers mike and allison. at the conclusion of our meal, we received our requisite fortune cookies. now, i am not a superstitious person, i will walk under ladders, step on cracks, allow a black cat to cross my path - i think moths are annoying but not harbingers of doom. however, i always eat all of my cookie before reading the fortune. why? someone once told me that was the only way the fortune will come true. for some reason, making wishes at 12:34 or 11:11 and closing your eyes to wish on a star go along with the consumption of said cookie. there is something sacred in these wishes, these fortunes, these things of chance. perhaps it has something to do with my attention to signs or synchronicity.well, today the fortune cookie gods threw me for a loop. how many fortunes do you think fortune cookie companies make? sure we've all seen a couple of them more than once, half seem to do with friendship being golden, but what are the chances of someone getting a fortune twice in a row? well the last time i ate chinese, i got a fortune that said "Be patient. Good things come to those who wait." i of course applied this to my love situation at the time and thought if i was patient, a certain boy would come around. now, five weeks or so later, i get the same fortune. what am i to gather from this? have i not been patient enough? is my fortune to be found by staying in austin? are the lottery numbers on the back my key to 120 mil in the Texas Lottery tonight? is my real fortune the indiscernible one that got caught in the pressed plastic wrapping, now ridged and perforated?
i am not an impatient person, but i am impulsive and sometimes the one gets in the way of the other. mike, co-worker and philosophy graduate had this wisdom: maybe if i learn some patience, i'll be rewarded with a new fortune. i guess i'll have to wait and see...
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