Acts of Pronoia Are Essential to Hope

On July the 21st in Julia Goldberg's Blog, Julia started a thread about Pronoia that has been wandering through my life in the course of the last few days. Quoting from Infidels of Every Denomination, Pronoia is

The state of believing that the universe is disposed towards benevolence and that others are conspiring to shower you with blessings. The opposite of paranoia.

My last post here was a rollicking journey through what has been without a doubt the strangest period of singleness that I have ever known. Yesterday, it all came to a mammoth head when I realized (as I have considered before) that maybe it really was *entirely* possible that I was going to spend the rest of my life being single, without a partner or a family beyond my parents, simply because everyone out there (myself included) is just Too Fucked Up to engage in a meaningful relationship with another person.