fortunes’ fool
I was sitting in my favorite sushi/chinese restaurant today, enjoying edamame, sushi, and General Tao Chicken, when, as is customary at the end of the meal, fortune cookies appeared. I, of course, had the subject of the previous post on my mind, and found that both fortunes only reinforce how much i Suck. Here they are:
- Your success in life must be earned with earnest efforts.
- A wise man knows everything. A shrewd one, everybody.
The first one may be obvious, but i feel the need to expound. First, i don’t believe i’ve had any real success in life. Fortunately, the fortune offers explanation as to why. It’s because i’m lazy! While i probably could have told you this had you only asked, it’s nice that the fortune wrapped it up so nicely for me. Bonus points for crappy alliteration!
The second may seem like a stretch, but this also feels like a personal admonition. I don’t know everything, and while that hardly seems like a revelation, i personally feel like i know very little. i’m three goddamn decades old and there are days when i have to sit and think and think just to remember how to tie my son’s shoes. Neither, back to the fortune, do i know everybody. Again, a hyperbolic statement, but again i feel like i fall far short of normal here. Of the people i “know” almost all are family, a few are friends of my wife, and my ONE good friend from childhood (who has his own companion blog, Q Sucks at Drawing, and will hopefully post some sketches here soon).
But, since i hate my own whining even more than i hate my laziness or my misanthropishness (which is actually misanthropy, but like this one better), i’m going to try to make this a bit more positive. If i’m not a wise man and i’m not a shrewd man, then what kind of man am i? I am an honest man. This is not to say that i’ve never told a lie or that i’m above a bit of fiction. Just that, by and large, i am the type of person who would rather tell the truth and face the consequence than tell a lie and have to live with it.
Relevance? Why sure, we’ve got some of that! Honesty is the one thing that people who write say that you need in order to tell a good story. Mr. King says “Tell the Truth,” and i will certainly try.
The moral of the story is that if i can’t be wise and i can’t be shrewd, at least i can be honest. And honestly, i need to put in some more of that earnest effort!