I don't enjoy cooking, so occasionally we order Chinese take-out after a busy day at work. We always order chicken fried rice, some egg rolls, and some kind of beef with vegetables that you layer on top of white rice. I don't know what it is called, because my husband always does the order. Each time, our meal is generously topped off with enough fortune cookies for each of us to have several. I am not generally superstitious, but it is just fun to break open the folded sugar wafer, take out the little slip of paper, and read what is inscribed there. We laugh at the way the fortunes match, or don't match, their recipients. Most of the time they are random meaningless predictions, but every now and then we will find a wise thought that causes us to stop and ponder.
My husband found this wisdom in a fortune cookie tonight. It isn't a fortune, but it is a very good thought. I believe it is worth pondering. It has nothing, and everything, to do with children. What do you think about this?
"There are only three colors, ten digits, and seven notes; it's what we do with them that is important."
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Those Chinese are so crafty! They are always looking for ways to teach even in desert. My favorite fortune cookie of all time was opened when Emily and I first started dating. It said,
"Stop searching, happiness is right next to you."
You know what is funny about that fortune is that only in modern Chinese do you count with base ten (ten digits) rather than the older form of base sixteen. Aileen also said that Chinese music use to only use five notes. I think your Chinese restaurant is getting its fortunes from an American production company. HaHa. I thought you might like to know that useless knowledge.
I figure the ones who produce the Engrish fortunes are probably immigrants, and I love them for it.
Usually it irritates me when a fortune cookie doesn't have a fortune in it. But I like that one.
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