Regarding Sanity

By Julie Kyed

Tue, 06 May 2014
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What if sanity is all just an act?

What if everyone is just a little bit insane, but we don't talk about it thus killing this horribly inevitable posibility with a roaring silence.

What if this is why we sometimes, deep down, feel so alone? And in our endless pursuit of sanity and the illusion of normality we end up utterly unhappy.

It is odd, though, isn't it? That in fear of exclusion we elect to exclude ourselves. We choose the solitude of hiding away our deepest darkest selves in fear of being regarded insane.  

One might argue that it is the impulse on which you choose to act that defines your sanity, but what about the impulse you choose to ignore?

An idea, a trail of thought so horrible that you won't even let yourself think it to end, even within the safety of your own mind. 

That thought that leaves behind the question: am I insane? 

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Submitted by Tom Brown on

Surely you cannot know what sanity is, if you don't know what sanity not is? Further then, how can you only truly know how it is to be sane if you've never been insane? Logic. Just my humble opinion. Good work here, food for thought.

Madly yours,

There was a man in parliament who'd been in mental hospital years before, and had been discharged, this was very long ago. He was once confronted with this in the house. His defence was:  "I am the only person here who has a letter certifying that I am sane."

Cheers! Tom

 

Submitted by Julie Kyed on

Thank you for your comment, I'm glad you liked it. It is just something I have been thinking about for a while; how you define sanity and how you sometimes catch yourself having a dark thought that makes you wonder if you might be a bit insane.