"Look for happiness and you will find it."
Okay, but when? When will I find happiness? You know, I've been looking for thirty-, er, I mean twenty-something *ahem* years and I still haven't found it. Will it be soon? Because I like to be prepared and I want to start preparing if I'm going to find it soon. And where? Where will I find this happiness? Why can't fortune cookies be more specific? See, this is why fortune cookies are stupid. What good is a fortune that doesn't tell you when and/or where? That's like giving someone a treasure map that is just a giant blank sheet with nothing but an X on it. "There is a treasure out there. Oh yes, there is. It's at the 'X.' Good luck, Indy."
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I think there was too much sugar in the Walnut Shrimp tonight, by the way.
babamoto says
Happiness depends, as Nature shows,
Less on exterior things than most suppose.
MC Baba
Trissa says
Haha... just had Chinese for dinner tonight and we also got our share of fortune cookies - at least you got to read yours. My brother in law (who had never eaten a fortune cookie before) ate the whole thing and did not realize there was a piece of paper in the cookie!
abraxis says
Maybe the fortune is referring to the six random lotto numbers underneath...
Sarah J. Gim says
baba: you're a poet....
trissa: ah, he had the cookie with "fiber." Incidentally, my cousin actually didn't even GET a fortune so he was traumatized.
abraxis: Yeah man. If I "find" 10 million dollars, I'm going to be fucking happy. All these people who say money doesn't bring happiness are poor.
Kevin H says
If you haven't seen this talk on fortune cookies/chinese food in America, you should check it out. Very entertaining. Worth 10 mins of your time.
http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/jennifer_8_lee_looks_for_general_tso.html
Sarah J. Gim says
Kevin: Thanks for the link! Watched the whole thing. I wouldn't say it was necessarily entertaining, but it did make some interesting points ~ strangely, do people still eat chop suey? At this point, isn't it almost a joke?
Kevin H says
Oh ya shoot. I guess you wouldn't get the "Open Source/Linux/Chinese food vs. Microsoft/Franchise" metaphor. I found that spot on.
Hopefully, the next generation won't know what chop suey is.