Lucky fortune

I've been meaning to post about this for awhile. Last week, J1, K1, S1 and I were all dining at VP2. fn1. The food was excellent, as always. When we finished, the waiter brought us the check and fortune cookies.

I grabbed one and cracked it open, to find this fortune:
"You would make a good lawyer."

Of course, everyone found this highly amusing. I suppose I did as well, although I'm not entirely fired up about this whole "being a lawyer" thing.

However, I've reconciled myself to the fortune. After all, it merely said that I would be a skilled lawyer. fn2. There are plenty of things that I'd good at doing that I wouldn't necessarily want to do. I mean, maybe I'd be a great go-go dancer, but that doesn't mean that I'll pursue a career doing that.

Most importantly, the fortune did not say, "You were MEANT to be a lawyer," as misquoted by K1. Just because I'm good at something doesn't mean I'm meant to do it. So I'm going to assume that this is the meaning of my fortune. I guess it's better than one saying, "You would make a terrible lawyer. Do not pursue such a career."

1. I'm trying to figure out a way to get a couple more abbreviations into that sentence.

2. It is possible that by "good lawyer" the fortune was implying an ethical, just, or selfless lawyer. But since such characteristics are almost impossible to find in lawyers, I'm going to assume that the fortune author could never have envisioned such a reading of the fortune.