Madness.
06.14.05 (6:16 am) [edit]
Read Paulo Coelho's 'Veronika decides to die'.
Certain insights gleamed.
1. Madness is e inability to communicate ur ideas...it seems tt everyone is on a diff wavelength as u...since u are 'incoherent'...they deem u mad e.g. e guy who tot e Earth was round when everyone tot it square.
He wasn't e conventional MAD...he just just unable to convince them tt their percieved reality is wrong.
2. extracted form bk: Once upon a time, a kingdom was under assault from another...e enemy wanted to sow discord and therefore poisoned e well-water with a substance tt will turn its drinkers insane...everyone drank from e well except e royal family which had their own well within e castle. Hence, only e royal family remained sane. With their sane outlook towards life, the King and Queen immediately ordered for doctors to come to their kingdom and for immediate healthchecks all over the country. There was an immediate uproar as all e citizens tot e King mad and wanted to revolt as e citizens have taken on e new outlook to Life. Hence, discovering tt e revolt was e plot of the enemy, the royal family (which was now deemed insane) simply cured themselves of their 'insanity' by drinking from e common well. Hence, everyone lived happily ever after.
Sanity and insanity are just relative terms. If someone from a diff era is to see me typing on a computer now with my t-shirts and shorts...she wld prob think me insane. Sanity is merely a reflection of how the majority views e world and e various unspoken laws of religion, society and nature.
3. my fav quote from e bk 'Be like the fountain that overflows, not like the cistern that merely contains' To overflow is to do wat u want...seemingly uncontrolled by any unspoken laws...an outburst of emotions. i dun want e restriction...no thanks. Everyone deserves a chance to be mad abt some things in their lives.
4. The asylum. A place where u can just do wat u want, say wat u want. Imagine a Life when u can kick up a fuss asking to be fed when u feel like it. u can just slap e nurse or ur fren. Walk away when u dun like e situation. Laff for no reason then laff somemore for having achieved tt.
E ultimate qn is: If there were no rules imposed on u...who wld u be??
=)
Too often we forget who we ARE...and strive to be who we SHLD be. shld be in terms of wat others expect of us, what we expect of ourselves..thus we dun see e diff aspects of ourselves.
In e bk, Veronika attempted suicide as she had built up such a strong fortress ard her and within it...she had constructed wat she tot Life SHLD be...however...she realised one day tt she hated herself. imagine. a Lofty stranger in her castle...she can't recognise tt stranger until she looked into a mirror...tt stranger is herself. trapped in e castle she had constructed..
Often we pretend to be who we are not. then we realised tt we cannot show who we really are. coz suddenly no one will recognize us..
I am ever so glad i allowed Madness into my Life.
And i am not afraid to show it. =)
Certain insights gleamed.
1. Madness is e inability to communicate ur ideas...it seems tt everyone is on a diff wavelength as u...since u are 'incoherent'...they deem u mad e.g. e guy who tot e Earth was round when everyone tot it square.
He wasn't e conventional MAD...he just just unable to convince them tt their percieved reality is wrong.
2. extracted form bk: Once upon a time, a kingdom was under assault from another...e enemy wanted to sow discord and therefore poisoned e well-water with a substance tt will turn its drinkers insane...everyone drank from e well except e royal family which had their own well within e castle. Hence, only e royal family remained sane. With their sane outlook towards life, the King and Queen immediately ordered for doctors to come to their kingdom and for immediate healthchecks all over the country. There was an immediate uproar as all e citizens tot e King mad and wanted to revolt as e citizens have taken on e new outlook to Life. Hence, discovering tt e revolt was e plot of the enemy, the royal family (which was now deemed insane) simply cured themselves of their 'insanity' by drinking from e common well. Hence, everyone lived happily ever after.
Sanity and insanity are just relative terms. If someone from a diff era is to see me typing on a computer now with my t-shirts and shorts...she wld prob think me insane. Sanity is merely a reflection of how the majority views e world and e various unspoken laws of religion, society and nature.
3. my fav quote from e bk 'Be like the fountain that overflows, not like the cistern that merely contains' To overflow is to do wat u want...seemingly uncontrolled by any unspoken laws...an outburst of emotions. i dun want e restriction...no thanks. Everyone deserves a chance to be mad abt some things in their lives.
4. The asylum. A place where u can just do wat u want, say wat u want. Imagine a Life when u can kick up a fuss asking to be fed when u feel like it. u can just slap e nurse or ur fren. Walk away when u dun like e situation. Laff for no reason then laff somemore for having achieved tt.
E ultimate qn is: If there were no rules imposed on u...who wld u be??
=)
Too often we forget who we ARE...and strive to be who we SHLD be. shld be in terms of wat others expect of us, what we expect of ourselves..thus we dun see e diff aspects of ourselves.
In e bk, Veronika attempted suicide as she had built up such a strong fortress ard her and within it...she had constructed wat she tot Life SHLD be...however...she realised one day tt she hated herself. imagine. a Lofty stranger in her castle...she can't recognise tt stranger until she looked into a mirror...tt stranger is herself. trapped in e castle she had constructed..
Often we pretend to be who we are not. then we realised tt we cannot show who we really are. coz suddenly no one will recognize us..
I am ever so glad i allowed Madness into my Life.
And i am not afraid to show it. =)