If only fortune cookies really did know the future. I eat them mainly for that little slip of paper inside, and I like saving the ones that seem particularly unusual. I like how some of them aren’t even predictions—they’re just statements. I have a collection of them, but these are two fortunes that are different from the usual “You will meet a mysterious stranger” type.

I got this one about a year ago, while eating out with my family at a Malaysian restaurant. I was job hunting at the time, so, of course, it got me pretty excited. Everyone commented it was appropriate to my situation and it would be great if it came true. Sad to say, this fortune cookie lied.

I actually considered law school. I did really well in my undergrad logic classes and I was told that would be my advantage if I ever took the LSATs. I went as far as to take introductory law classes just to see if I would like it. (I loved tort law.) My two sisters and a brother-in-law are lawyers so I asked them if they liked law school. This is what I learned: law school and being a lawyer are two different things. In law school, you get to read, write, learn, and analyze cases. When you become a lawyer, all you do is read pages and pages of legal documents and do boring lawyer things (according to my family members). I was told if I wanted to read and write, then do something where I can read and write. So I got a degree in creative writing instead.

These are the only ones I could find for now, but I have more stuffed in an Altoids tin somewhere. When I find them, I’ll post those as well.