Oct25

‘oh, I am fortune’s fool!’ – William Shakespeare

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at the end a long chinese lunch

we each opened two fortune cookies

our first ones were empty

not a good sign

what are the odds?

luckily we had a second chance

one offered ‘a great opportunity…’

the other ‘it’s in the cards…’

pretty positive

quite generic

 

on the back

was ‘the fantasy casino’

now our fortunes made sense

the cookies were ads. .

which were better?

the loaded casino cookies?

or

the sad empty cookies ?

both were disappointing

a reminder

 we make our own luck.

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”million-to-one chances…crop up nine times out of ten.’

― Terry Pratchett, English author

 

*Sir Terence David John Pratchett (1948 – 2015) was an English author, humorist, and satirist, best known for the Discworld series of 41 comic fantasy novels and for the apocalyptic comedy novel  Good Omens which he co-wrote with Neil Gaiman.

With more than 100 million books sold worldwide in 43 languages, Pratchett was the UK’s best-selling author of the 1990s. He was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire and was knighted for services to literature. In 2001, he won the annual Carnegie Medal, and the World Fantasy Award for Life Achievement.

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42 responses »

  1. It is a good reminder–though I love it when I do get a fortune cookie that offers a “fortune” that seems to fit me or the situation. More importantly, I hope the “long Chinese lunch” was long because you were enjoying yourself!

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  15. a casino advertising good luck opportunities via/in the form of a fortune cookie is advertising genius.

    and yes, some poor soul is going to trek immediately to the casino to catch their good fortune opportunity. and who knows, maybe they will find what they are looking for!

    as for luck being something we make. others have said already, luck is being prepared for opportunity. i think this is partially correct. i’ve witnessed luck go unrecognised as something arriving at an inconvenient time. also, being in the right place at the right time does include a bit of luck in itself… luck within luck.

    wouldn’t it be something to finally know all the times luck arrived and we didn’t recognise it. mistaking it for something else.

    i consider myself a very lucky person.

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