{"id":42367,"date":"2020-01-01T14:48:15","date_gmt":"2020-01-01T19:48:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sidebarforplaintiffs.naomifein.net\/?p=42367"},"modified":"2020-01-02T13:03:42","modified_gmt":"2020-01-02T18:03:42","slug":"on-this-first-of-the-new-year-i-have-a-new-question","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sidebarforplaintiffs.naomifein.net\/?p=42367","title":{"rendered":"On this first of the new year, I have a new question…"},"content":{"rendered":"

What has happened to fortune cookies?<\/p>\n

Last night, after red-penning my book and marking it for the table of contents — ever so exhausting — I considered dinner. Would I heat it up on my single burner (we don’t have gas in our building)? Or would I wander over to my local Chinese restaurant?<\/p>\n

You’ve figured out the answer.<\/p>\n

I got two yummy dishes and, therefore, two fortune cookies. Which were themselves unusually good.<\/p>\n

Now I have another question: does anyone eschew reading the fortunes in the cookies?<\/p>\n

Never mind that question. Let’s go back to my initial question. Which is: when did fortune cookies stop telling fortunes and start giving us orders?<\/p>\n

“Accept yourself.” That’s one of them. I riposted (that’s not “re-post”) immediately, “I do accept myself, I have long accepted myself, what’s my choice anyway? and why are you giving me assertive advice instead of telling me what’s going to happen, say, tomorrow?”<\/p>\n

The second one reads, “When things go wrong, don’t go with them.” Now, this one I appreciated because it’s witty, isn’t it? But, on the other hand, it’s not telling me that something is going to go wrong today.<\/p>\n

I’m feeling somewhat bothered by this abdication of fortune cookies’ responsibilities to tell fortunes, instead of commanding me to accept myself and not to go wrong.<\/p>\n

I did flip both of the fortunes over and saw that I could go to an url named SecondFortune.com but I’m not going to do that because the first and only time I threw whatevers at the I Ching and didn’t like what it had to say, I threw the whatevers again. My friend Dave — whose I Ching we were using — said, “I wouldn’t do that, if I were you. It doesn’t like being questioned,” and he was right. The I Ching basically slammed me for asking it again.<\/p>\n

So, no, I’m not enterting SecondFortune.com territory. Instead I think I’ll begin the new year by (1) accepting myself and (2) not going wrong with things that go wrong. And (3) eating more of the yummy leftovers tonight.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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