I feel like i should elaborate a little bit more on this unfortunate of all fortune cookies I received yesterday courtesy of Union Chinese Restaurant which caters our dinners from time to time. I get a kick out of looking at fortune cookies and I always frown when they are copout type of fortunes like "look behind you more often" or some enigmatic shit like that.
But i've never received one quite like this. A fortune cookie that's actually judging me; laying claim that my head may not be screwed on straight and that I am falling into certain traps at this particular time in my life that I should rely on my friends to help straighten my judgement.
Is it possible? perhaps.... should I believe it? well, seeing my track record of decisions i've made there are definitely a few i would probably take back and possibly with the help of my friends could have been avoided all together. I feel like mistakes are necessary mistakes that one needs to make in order to grow in life. It reminds me of a iconic scene in the first season of How I Met Your Mother when Lily and Ted are arguing about whether or not she should try for this art school all the way across the country in San Francisco:
OK, yes it's a mistake. I know it's a mistake, but there are certain things in life where you know it's a mistake but you don't really know it's a mistake because the only way to really know it's a mistake is to make the mistake and look back and say 'yep, that was a mistake.' So really, the bigger mistake would be to not make the mistake, because then you'd go your whole life not knowing if something is a mistake or not. And dammit, I've made no mistakes! I've done all of this; my life, my relationship, my career, mistake-free. Does any of this make sense to you?
It's called taking a risk in life. Although I consider myself to be a very conservative person, I would say i've taken a few risks that I can look back on and say I learned from that mistake. You could go your whole life without making mistakes and you will live a full life but I feel like mistakes are made to help an individual grow as long as you do the second part of that quote which is look back upon that incident or that decision and properly say: "yes.... that was a mistake" only then do you grow as an individual and move on with your life with your head held just a little bit taller and just a little bit wiser.
And maybe.... this fortune cookie is telling me that the one mistake I haven't learned yet was being able to rely on my friends?
could have saved me a lot of shit in the past that's for sure.... we'll see.... i'll hold on to this fortune cookie as many i've saved in the past but this one is definitely something to sit down and think about just a little bit further.
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