Fortune Cookies, that is.

I recently got a fortune cookie which actually was a "fortune telling" cookie. Those seem to be rare, these days. Most "fortunes" found on little strips of paper inside those cripsy sweets seem to be innocuous platitudes. But occasionally, they actually predict something about your future. They are as useless as horoscopes and telephone psychics for true prescience, but sometimes you get one you would like to think is true.

Here's the one I got:

"Many people will be drawn to you for your wisdom and insights."

For me, this is just exactly the kind of fortune I want to believe.
True, I've had other "fortunes" which actually predicted fame, riches, adventure, romance -- these cookies do still sometimes try to promise benefits to their readers -- but it's a fortune like this which strokes my ego and makes me say "Now, that would be great!"

Did I ever claim not to be full of myself?