Lunacy

Wherein lies the mark of sanity?

Oft do we draw lines between sanity and confusion. Constantly tracing a line between actions thought crazy and logically moderated acts. How do we decide between that which makes sense, and that which defies all that is natural and sane?

- Jumping off a building

- Running down a hill backwards

- Working for nothing

- Dying for love

- Believing in God

- Talking to yourself

- Laughing for no apparent reason

- Crying for no apparent reason

- Kissing your toes

- Sniffing your shoes

- Falling in love

- Never falling in love

How many of those things above makes sense for you? How many of them, is a mark for the sane? Or rather, for the insane. You tell me what you think.

Every person perceives sanity differently. Abstraction of thought is a clear sign of insanity, is it not? Gradual degradation of logical thought. A mark of insanity wouldn't you think? You'd be insane to think otherwise.

Then again, many a man have gone against the marks of sanity made by their social cicles. Many a genius of our time and beyond have run through history, breaking the boundaries of present and past knowledge. Geniuses such as Galileo Galilei and Isaac Newton, not to mention Einstein and Plato. All these men of abstract thought and impossible intelligence. Their discoveries trudged along the edges of human knowledge and understanding, coming close even, to being labeled mad men.

Were they insane? Well, to come up with the special theory or relativity you had to be!

For a single man to stand up against the relative ideals of every other person around him, would label him insane. For a single man to oppose the visage of the world upheld by others, would make him a lunatic. I'd have to agree with that, don't you think so too? I'd have to be crazy to say otherwise.

So, sanity is marked by the relative similarities of thought patterns within the society. and as these ideals change and shift, so does that mark change. The idea of human flight was naught but a dream of a child in the past. But the Wright brothers changed that fact.

Lunacy. It's the heart of our sanity.