Preparedness & Paranoia 2

Some time back we were lucky to stumble upon a quote on preparedness & paranoia:

“Being Prepared is proactive.
Being Paranoid is reactive.”

“Reactive” does not need much explaining, it is a response to an action or event.

“Proactive” on the other hand means “tending to initiate change rather than reacting to events”

(Collins English Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged © HarperCollins Publishers)

In other words a sensible prepper seeks to change his current situation (for the best) under some consideration. The paranoid prepper responds to stimuli -like fear of a possible or imaginative event- and one can consider his actions more impulsive than considered.