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One of my favorite things at the end of a Chinese meal whether take out, dining in, buffet, etc. . . is the fortune cookies. It really feels like Christmas. Almost like inside the individual cookies lies a forbidden secret that was meant to tell only you something that could change your life. One that really stuck out to me went like this: "In great attempts it is glorious even to fail" and then there were small numbers below it. Those little messages might get overlooked (especially with the bill being given the same time). What if the check alters your mood about the message that awaits. Maybe it would be more positive to give you the cookie first then wait 10 minutes and then out comes the really high check. Another thing I have pondered about the fortune cookie is the author. Sometimes I recieve the same message, to one that could just mean that its commercialized and there are only a certain number printed OR something is trying to tell you something important and you are not listening. What if there was a secret wisdom circle of about 10 Mr. Miyagis who gathered every full moon (once a month) and sat in a dark room with an overhead light, they put on some sounds-of-the-ocean type of music and let their inner spirituality wisdom pour out with a typewriter in front of them and stuffed them in each cookie and mailed them to all the Chinese restaurants IN THE WORLD and they were individual messages for certain people (they are so wise that they can pretty much predict the future)? What it?