Today I had a meeting with my boss’s boss, convinced I would either be demoted, or terminated, or phased out (whatever that means). But it turns out I was being offered sort of a promotion.
It was the first time in a long long while where I expected really really bad to happen that ended up not happening. I say “really really” because it’s kind of a process.
- Expecting the worst.
- Outcome: not nearly as bad as I thought
- Expecting the worst, but as a mental trickery, tricking my brain to pretend to expect the worst, knowing that expecting the worst is only a precursor to a positive outcome. expecting the worse as a strategy to summon the not worst.
- Expecting that expecting the worse is the best way summon something positive, only to find that this process of expectations results in something far far worse than the original authentic expecting the worst.
The Lost Pedestrian 