Why are we so fascinated with our fortunes? Isn’t the future something that should be a surprise, so to speak, or at least to a point.

Some people believe in Tarot Cards, some go to psychics, but I always think that if a psychic has something to tell me, they should be calling me, right?

Ok, what inspired my blog is even more basic, fortune cookies. I don’t know why we’re so fascinated with fortune cookies, ok, well I am! I love getting my fortune cookie after a meal, this would be Chinese food specifically, I don’t know another nationailty that gives out fortune cookies with your check. I have a buddah bowl that I painted for my fortunes, I hope to find it in a box some day. I also have “A Fortune Collecting Journal” http://www.amazon.com/Fortune-Collecting-Journa-Potter-Style/dp/0307352331. I had entered a few fortunes then I couldn’t find the book and now I have it again, guess what I’m going to start doing!

Sometimes we have to wonder what the fortune maker was smoking when they wrote the fortunes! My dad’s SO, LD got a fortune “Next time, you leave the house, turn left” what? I had one that said “You are a good man” huh? There was a commerical that someone sent me, and I have been trying to find it for you that showed how fortunes are created, it was very funny [someone in the basement of the restaurant was listening to conversations and wrote accordingly].

There are some cool things about fortune cookies, not only is it a tasty treat, but your lottery numbers are included! I like when you get to learn a new phrase or word, they give you the english and then the chinese, both written in chinese and the phonetic pronunciation.

Do you ever get the feeling that the writer was bored? Or that your fortune was meant for someone else? Scary when some of them sort of come true!

Last night, I went for dinner with CKM, her fortune said [and I am paraphrasing] “You are a good creative writer, you should write a book” she looked at me, huh? I laughed, that should have been mine, I’ve been writing a book for a while, if I had gotten it, it might have been a sign. My fortune said “You will soon be reunited with an old friend” ok, I’ll bite, I wonder who. I don’t usually listen.

But… lo and behold, last night, as I was checking things out on FaceBook, I got a message from someone I haven’t spoken to in about 3 years! What are the odds? We started talking and caught up for about 45 minutes. So, maybe my fortune was true.

Wait, that means I need to play the lottery with the numbers on the back, wish me luck!

And good luck to you!