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Fortune Cookies can be profound..

So I was at work last night, at KBYU, and they fed us dinner. Sweet, free food! As a college kid with almost no money to my name, I'll gladly eat food that someone not only pays for, but pays me to eat! I've learned to like a lot of foods this way... I never used to enjoy Chinese food, but now I do. And last night, our food came from Panda Express. Seeing as I've never eaten authentic Chinese food from China, I don't know how "real" this food is, but it's pretty delicious. But that is not the point.

The point is, half the fun of eating Chinese food is to read and laugh at the fortune inside the fortune cookie! Especially from Panda Express, where the fortunes are usually pretty lame, silly, or in fact MISfortunes! As I cracked my cookie open last night, my heart was pounding with anticipation... what would I get? Would it change my LIFE?!!? Okay, so I was just curious, and my heart wasn't pounding. :)

I read the little slip of paper, and guess what. I was shocked at the accuracy of it! "There is excitement to be found wherever you go." This is basically a summation of my entire life! In a few ways...

If you know me, you know that I am generally optimistic to the point of people around me wondering WHY I am so happy so much of the time! You also know that I get excited over what other people would consider "little" things... like seeing the first flower of the season, waking up to snow on the ground, rain, eating cheesecake, or things even smaller that other people might in fact consider insignificant. So naturally, because of this, I DO find excitement everywhere I go!

In a different way, something exciting always seems to happen to me and my friends. I can name a billion and a half times this has happened, but unfortunately I have to go do math homework. But you see my point here? That piece of paper folded inside a cookie caused excitement because of how accurate it was! Funny how random stuff like that can happen every once in a while, and it can brighten what already seems like a perfect day...
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  1. Patty OgdenMarch 5, 2009 at 3:59 PM

    GREAT first post. So true, too. Life really is what we make of it. If you choose to be happy and find excitement wherever you go, you'll find happiness and excitement. I love the first flower in spring too and I've been watching the ground in front of the house for the first sign of crocuses. Alas, it snowed and hid the dirt again, but not to worry. I decided to plant a hyacinth bulb in the house and it's doing fine!

    Life is wonderful! And I love your post.

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  2. JoannaMarch 5, 2009 at 4:10 PM

    Wow so profound.... ;) Really though, you are so right, and your Mom too! I am fascinated though that you got to eat your first Panda Express! Yum!! Hey if you decide that you are going to like Chinese food from now on, there is this awesome Chinese buffet in American Fork - cheap and delicious - just what starving students need!!!

    Welcome to the blogging world - we are a friendly bunch :)

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  3. AlysonMarch 6, 2009 at 11:00 AM

    You have discovered the secret to happiness: CHOOSING to be happy! It's not hard, yet it escapes so many of us. I'm psyched you're blogging and Twittering!

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