Reversed Paranoia

Paranoia, those disturbed thoughts that are lurking in our minds, the feeling of anxiety and the excessive emotions of fear. Did it ever occur to you that at some point in your life (or I hope to God that its not every point in your life..) you have felt these emotions? That you feel the people around you is plotting something against you or to do you harm? Suddenly your life seems to suck and appears to leave in a awful end? Most probably (or not, if you are not human..) you might have been in this kind of dump at some point or another…

What if we try to reverse that thinking? To try to think that the anxiety we feel will lead us to a better end? Imagine how much easier it would be once we think that those people who try to plot against us or the negative circumstances will be just become instruments to make us achieve something better? Suddenly, those obstacles that we face are not seen as another “Oh, this is a crappy life” but we’d see them as opportunities to grow, to change and to succeed.

Was there a part of your past that you think you failed but because of that situation it opened another door for you or has become a blessing because it gave you a new opportunity to run after what you like?

One of the most tragic parts of my life was when I worked in a local IT company and the President was clearly not happy about me, did not trust me enough and didn’t believe that I can accomplish my functions. I was martyrishly (is that even a word?) working long hours and still have to study when I reach home, and just for the President to make me feel that I wasn’t good enough. I was really unhappy and after a year I decided to resign without a security of a new job.

But that circumstance gave me a new opportunity to do something that I do like. It gave me a chance to travel other countries (which I was dreaming to do) and have the best vacation of my life. And when I finally spent my last money, I decided to come back to the Philippines and work again. Guess what? Found a new job and it gave me better compensations and a lot of room for growth. Now that company opened a lot of doors for me because till my position now, I am using the experience, the knowledge and the network that I’ve gained.

That a*s of a President was really a blessing in disguise because he gave me a push to reassess what I want to do in my life… Honestly speaking I wanted to hate him till my dying days but how he became an instrument in my life, I Super Duper Love Him!!!

And so kids, we have a choice to become “inversely paranoid.” No matter how we dislike a person or a circumstance, let us be paranoid that they can become instruments for our greater being. We can treat every negative event in our lives that it can give us equal benefits in the long run… (let me share you a secret, this is how those little people with big successes thinks, clever aren’t they?)

i've always been the opposite of paranoid.
i operate as if everyone is part of a plot to
enhance my well-being...

--stan dale