The other day I opened up this fortune cookie. I was quite surprised at the message inside. It said:
“You only treasure what you cannot possess.”
What a horrifying fortune. I can’t believe they actually willingly put this in a cookie. Most fortunes are either good or neutral but in a way that if you are optimistic you can read them in a good way. This one, though, I couldn’t and can’t figure out how to read it as good. It just seems bad any way I look at it.
It is either a terrible indictment on my character as I am now, or a terrifying prediction about my future or both. It is as if it is saying that I am doomed to a person ever grasping, never gaining, always wanting and wishing for more, never satisfied or fully appreciating what I have now. Such a sad and terrible fate. It makes me weep just to imagine it.
But it’s just a fortune. Paper and ink wrapped in dough. It doesn’t mean anything.
Or does it?
