What if someone told you that you were going to be rich someday? What would you think at that moment?

When I was in my first year of college, during the second semester in 2023, there was a woman who was a traditional healer. My father brought her into our apartment to give massages and perform traditional body manipulations to help relieve pain.

She massaged the members of my family one by one while I was upstairs, busy working on an activity for one of my subjects. When everyone was finished, my father called me to come downstairs.

While I was walking down the stairs, the healer suddenly told my family that I was going to be rich someday.

I gave her a skeptical look. It wasn't that I didn't believe her, but I thought that sometimes people say things like that just to make others feel good, especially when they're being paid for their services. I wasn't sure if that was really what she meant, but I didn't think much of it.

I sat down, and she started massaging my back. While she was massaging me, she continued telling my family that I was going to be rich one day.

In my mind, I was just thinking, "If it's true, then I hope so."

After massaging my back for a few minutes, she got up, said goodbye, and went home.

Later that evening, during dinner, my eldest sister started teasing me.

"Why are you the only one who's going to be rich?" she asked.

I looked at her and said, "Wait, you actually believe what that woman said?"

My sister replied, "Don't you want to get rich?"

"Of course I want to be rich," I said. "It's just that I don't want to believe I'm going to get rich that easily just because someone told me I would."

My sister simply said, "Then believe it."