Interesting Omikuji Message Ideas for Seniors

Last updated:2025/4/27

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One fun recommendation for events and recreational activities in January is drawing omikuji (fortune slips).

While the usual fortunes like “Great Blessing” or “Slight Blessing” are classics, why not try creating omikuji with amusing messages that older adults will enjoy? In this article, we’ll share “funny omikuji messages for seniors”! We’ve gathered ideas with positive wording about health and longevity, as well as messages that will make people chuckle when they open their fortune.

We’ve also included tips for intentionally incorporating exercise into daily life.

Let’s liven things up with a different kind of omikuji than you’d find at a shrine.

Use these ideas when making your own handmade omikuji!

[For Seniors] Collection of Fun Omikuji (Fortune Slip) Text Ideas (1–10)

One good deed a day. That attitude makes the heart beautiful.

These words encourage the mindset of doing good in everyday life, which leads to inner beauty.

Let this phrase help you firmly embrace a positive attitude—do good, spend your time in ways that benefit others.

And when you put good deeds into action, you’ll feel a sense of clarity and lightness; that positive emotion further contributes to your overall health.

It’s a passage filled with the intention to face forward with your feelings and connect that positivity to physical well-being.

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Your academic luck is on the rise. It’s a good opportunity to learn something new.

Let’s deliberately toss out a phrase like something you’d find on a student’s fortune slip: your academic luck is on the rise.

Even after walking a long road in life, realizing there are still things you don’t know can spark curiosity about the wider world.

If you turn your attention to fields you haven’t explored before, the new knowledge you gain there will help activate your mind.

Fully enjoying new things may also contribute to a more fulfilling daily life and a healthy heart.

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If you sing together with your favorite staff member, something wonderful will come your way.

Doing enjoyable activities can bring many positive benefits for older adults.

This fortune slip—“If you sing together with your favorite staff member, something wonderful will come your way”—has an exciting message, doesn’t it? Many people feel happy just being with someone they like.

That alone can give you the motivation to try your best in many things.

Being able to sing your favorite songs together with a favorite staff member can become a source of purpose in life and also help improve both mental and physical well-being.

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Paying attention to your appearance will bring new encounters.

This is a message encouraging people to be mindful of their appearance so that they wouldn’t be embarrassed no matter who sees them, which can further expand their relationships.

When we think of grooming, our attention tends to go to what we wear when we go out, but let’s take a good, thorough look at our overall appearance from here and turn our attention to our daily lifestyle as well.

While considering a style that attracts new encounters, it also seems like a good opportunity to think about clothing and grooming that feel true to yourself.

Once you have your own grooming neatly in place, you might even feel more eager to go out.

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Let’s laugh a lot! Good health will come.

After visiting a Shinto shrine or Buddhist temple, we draw an omikuji to receive a gracious message from the gods or Buddha.

We rejoice or despair over getting “great blessing” or “curse,” but an omikuji contains not only fortunes; it also includes Chinese poems and waka.

You are meant to interpret these as personal messages from the divine.

As we get older, “health” becomes one of the most important things, so a message like “Let’s laugh often” may well be words that lead everyone toward happiness.

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“Hidden virtues, visible rewards”: If you treat people kindly, the same kindness will come back to you.

“Intoku yōhō” may look like a very difficult phrase at first glance, but it means that when you do good deeds where no one can see you, good things will surely come back to you.

It’s similar to the saying “Kindness is not just for others,” meaning kindness ultimately benefits oneself.

Whether or not anyone is watching, there are many things you can do for others—offering a hand when someone around you is in trouble, or taking the initiative before something happens.

Small, steady efforts will come back to you in a good way later on; thinking that way can be motivating, can’t it? With the aim of boosting everyday motivation, why not include this in a fortune slip?

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If you wash your hands and gargle properly, you should be able to stay healthy.

It sounds like an idea that would make you chuckle if you pulled a fortune slip and found a phrase that reads like a grade-school health slogan! Still, handwashing and gargling really are important for staying healthy.

It can be hard to say it out loud without sounding preachy, but if you put it on a fortune slip like this, you can get the message across with a bit of humor.

It’s not just fun—it’s genuinely useful, too.

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