Fortune Cookies

If I owned a fortune cookie company, I would make the fortunes evocative, something to excite the imagination so that people’s perspectives would shift after their meal.

I might put in something like, “You will see three beautiful things tomorrow.” Then the whole next day, the person would have their eyes open, looking for beauty. They would ask themselves, “What is beauty? Is that tree the beautiful thing? Is my spouse the beautiful thing? My hand?"

Maybe I would write, “Seven people love you madly.” You would look at each of your friends with a secret smile. “Are you one of them? I knew you liked me, but do you love me madly?” How about this one: “You will figure something out two days from now” or “They appreciate what you did.”

People certainly get slipped awful messages all the time. A partner says, “You don’t get it,” or “You’re just like your father.” We receive messages from bosses, parents, friends, and from that venomous voice inside. Why not interrupt the spread of discouragement? I would love to get a fortune that says, “Don’t try to improve yourself tomorrow.” What would it do to your perspective if you read, “The next two years are just for fun”?

Yeah, I'd like that a lot. And I'd make the cookies taste better too.

With my glass half full,
Regina