Damn, man, you crazy!

Well folks, it's been almost two weeks since my last post, but I'm finally back. Here's one that I've given some real thought to-something that will be worth the wait.

Now, according to the general public, an insane man is, to put it loosely, someone who thinks about weird things. An insane fellow would be a guy who says the world's going to end tomorrow, aliens implanted chips in my brain, or The Weekly World News isn't funny-it's true. Now, all three of those things are things that only a complete madman would say, correct? However, at least in the case of the first two, are they not things that a creative man would say? Wouldn't a story where a man had chips implanted in his brain by aliens make a pretty good movie? My real question is; what is the difference between insanity and creativity? Where do you draw the line? In fact, many people that were considered insane in their time were actually quite sane and clear-thinking. Einstein, Nikola Tesla, hell, even Edvard Munch makes sense to some people.

But the problem with people is that most have the same view of everything. Almost everyone tries to think the same way as everybody else does-that way, they don't have people look at them strangely and call them nuts. We all do have strange thoughts once in a while-sometimes they suddenly pop up while we sleep, waking us up at four in the morning, while other times they appear when we're at work. But most people just ignore them-one night you wake up thinking about a solution to some major problem, but you forget it because it sounds crazy. Our mind is much like the sun-it's a huge bubbling mass, and every so often it shoots up a huge column of flames; AKA a thought. Many times this thought means nothing-a three headed cat, for example, and we forget about it for good reason. When an actually good thought pops up, we often forget it, too, because we think that it would make us look like we've lost our mind.

But the "insane" man doesn't just forget about what he thinks of. When that column of fire shoots out of his bubbling brain he holds on to it, pondering the effects of this new thought. Unfortunately, sometimes when someone actually has a severe mental disorder they hold onto the wrong thoughts. But there are those who cannot be proven to be insane who are labeled crazy anyways-not by a doctor but by their peers. And so the person who thought of something to solve world hunger forgets about his, as it turns out, logical and practical idea to avoid being ridiculed. Because of this, because of those who want you to think inside the box, many good thoughts are discarded. Think outside the box when you think about it, folks.