Pronoia is the belief that the universe is conspiring in your favour - the opposite of paranoia.
I found the word pronoia in a random article in 2018. I've always been more of a realist than an optimist, but it resonated with me and I took a screenshot of the definition. It reads as follows:
"Pronoia: At one point in J.D. Salinger's Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters, Seymour Glass muses about himself, "Oh, God, if I'm anything by a clinical name, I'm a kind of paranoiac in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy." About three decades later, sociologist Fred Goldner came up with a name for this: pronoia, the opposite of paranoia. Instead of the fear that you are at the center of some diabolical lot, pronoia, as Smith describes it, is the "strange, creeping feeling that everyone's out to help you." And, hey, just because you're pronoid doesn't mean they're not out to help you."
I like the idea of the universe keeping an eye on me. I'm a big believer in karma and what goes around comes around.
I liked the idea so much, I got my sister to write it for me so I could get it tattooed.
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