“I am a kind of paranoiac in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy.”
J. D. Salinger quotes (American Novelist and short story Writer,)
“I am a kind of paranoiac in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy.”
J. D. Salinger quotes (American Novelist and short story Writer,)
My only question is how soon did he wake up from that?
Abraham Maslow invented a term for that feeling: “metanoia” instead of paranoia.
I would much rather have metanoia than paranoia, even if it wasn’t true.