What is Happening? The Inexplicable MUST READ!!

In a very strange and wonderful series of events on March 27th, there lies a mystery.

As happens on many Friday nights, Renee’ and I playfully discuss whether we’re energetic enough to go out to grab a quick bite of Mexican food, to order in, or if I go pick up Chinese food. We kicked around several options and fatigue won. Tonight it was Chinese food. Then she asked that I bring home a couple of extra fortune cookies as they are her quiet cheat. Knowing that she liked fortune cookies, I decided to pop into the grocery store and buy a larger bag of them to surprise her. So, I did. Then I picked up the food, brought it home, and we devoured it as if we hadn’t eaten in weeks. 

She then took the two cookies that came with the meal leaving me to open the new bag and to take one of the cookies out of the bag. I’m always curious about the fortune, even though I have only a passing interest in them. Scrounging for my glasses because the print is so small on those things, I pulled out the fortune and read it:

“To the world, you may be one person, but to one person you may be the world.”

The quote is often attributed to Dr. Seuss, but we can’t be absolutely sure. But in this week, where we finally ordered the proof of the hardback book, signaling some of the finality of all the hard work we’ve been through in the last year, this fact is undeniable:

That sentence is absolutely the last sentence in the book followed by “THE END.” I got chills. How in the actual hell did this happen…. ?

Akin to the miracle of the forbes.com writers finding me on LinkedIn and asking me to do an interview for an article and then asking me if I wanted to drop the week of the book release, this happenstance of the fortune cookie seems to live in the same neighborhood of miracles.

Of all the nights.

Of all the choices we had of types of food for our Friday night:

• The choice I made to buy the extra cookies at that grocery store.

• Me choosing that particular box of cookies.

• Then choosing that particular cookie from the bag of cookies.
• And it is the LAST sentence in Week Minded.

I have to think there is a very low probability of that sequence repeating successfully in a million tries. I ate two more cookies just to make sure all of the fortunes were not identical. I am selfless that way!

What does that say? Is this fortune cookie foreshadowing other strokes of good fortune on this journey? Is this a matter of dumb luck or is this a reward for trying to do the right thing by all people as often as possible.

For now, as Darryl Preen says, “I just want to see where this thing goes!”

The end!