How a pessimist sees a good fortune cookie

I get this fortune cookie (sorry for the poor focus, iPhone needs to improve their camera, especially for corporate spies photographing documents :-) ) and I was giddy. "Oh, good, success at last!"
But then I thought about it more. If i WILL be successful, what have I been so far? And when will this success happen?
And then I ate the cookie. And it was good.