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CMV: I can't stop believing in a palmistry prediction and it's ruining my life

3 years ago, a co-worker who is big on palm-reading, astrology, and other woo stuff read my palm and said "no abroad settlement" among otherwise nice things pertaining to health, money, intuition, luck. I chose to forget all the nice things he said and have been fixated on that one prediction that relates to moving out of my home country. Why? Because I hold that idea so dear to me. I live in a third-world country and for as long as I can remember, I've wanted to move outside to a better place.

Because I've had this living-outside dream for far too long, I've spent most of my life wondering if I'll even fulfill that dream or not. I have spent time worrying and cooking up imaginations about all of it. So, in some ways, I'm just calibrating a prediction and backing it up because of how my life has turned out to be untill now.

For most of the things, I'm quite a skeptic. So it feels very strange to me how I've been unable to shake myself out of this view. The rational part of my head says all of this is bogus, how could a few lines on my hand decide my fate. Even if palmistry is real, it could only suggest my nature. Trust me, I've tried to reason myself multiple times. I've tried to tell myself that every belief is there because it's serving you in some way. I've told myself this belief is not coming from a place of belief in palmistry being true but from a place of belief in my insecurities. I'm literally giving power to my insecurities by believing in something he told me that I already feared.

Yet, despite all of this self reasoning, I end up clinging to the belief that what my co-worker predicted about me will materialize. And that is ruining my life. I don't know if posting this here would help me change my view but here's a desperate try.

Edit after an hour of posting this: I'm overwhelmed by the thoughtful replies. Would be difficult to reply to each and every one of you but I just want to say, thank you so much for helping me see different perspectives. I'm going to copy-paste your level-headed comments to my notes and see how it changes my viewpoint overtime.
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Maybe what they really meant was “No! abroad settlement”.  Telling you to stop doubting and settle abroad.

Or maybe they meant “Noah, Broad Settlement” meaning you should seek out a man named Noah as you travel the world.