Crazy can be a good thing

[Eddi]

Recently on social media I have been called "crazy" by multiple people

But I think this is good

Because it means that my thinking is beyond what is considered normal

And I don't think that normal thinking is necessarily good, indeed I think it can be unhealthy and counter-productive

Crazy can be a good thing

I'll take it as a compliment, thank you very much

 

[darkskies]

I'll take it as a compliment, thank you very much

That's crazy.

 

[Geoff-Allen]

Recently on social media I have been called "crazy" by multiple people

But I think this is good

Because it means that my thinking is beyond what is considered normal

And I don't think that normal thinking is necessarily good, indeed I think it can be unhealthy and counter-productive

Crazy can be a good thing

I'll take it as a compliment, thank you very much

You may be onto something!

Are you familiar with R. D. Laing?

The condition of alienation, of being asleep, of being unconscious, of being out of one’s mind, is the condition of the normal man. Society highly values its normal man. It educates children to lose themselves and to become absurd, and thus to be normal. Normal men have killed perhaps 100,000,000 of their fellow normal men in the last fifty years.

R. D. Laing Quote

Enjoy your insanity

 

[Brian2]

Recently on social media I have been called "crazy" by multiple people

But I think this is good

Because it means that my thinking is beyond what is considered normal

And I don't think that normal thinking is necessarily good, indeed I think it can be unhealthy and counter-productive

Crazy can be a good thing

I'll take it as a compliment, thank you very much

Thinking outside the box can be a good thing, but of course the box is there for a good reason as long as it does not become our prison.

 

[RestlessSoul]

- Jack Kerouac

 

[SalixIncendium]

Recently on social media I have been called "crazy" by multiple people

But I think this is good

Because it means that my thinking is beyond what is considered normal

And I don't think that normal thinking is necessarily good, indeed I think it can be unhealthy and counter-productive

Crazy can be a good thing

I'll take it as a compliment, thank you very much

I don't know. You seem pretty normal to me.

But then again, I've been called crazy.

But crazy people don't know they're crazy. I know I'm crazy. Therefore, I'm not crazy. Isn't that crazy?

 

[ChristineM]

Recently on social media I have been called "crazy" by multiple people

But I think this is good

Because it means that my thinking is beyond what is considered normal

And I don't think that normal thinking is necessarily good, indeed I think it can be unhealthy and counter-productive

Crazy can be a good thing

I'll take it as a compliment, thank you very much

What is normal anyway? Every human being is unique, just like every other human being

 

[Mock Turtle]

Thinking one has an ability (or knowledge) which one doesn't truly possess might be crazy, or believing some religious text because it just makes sense to one despite other evidence to the contrary (if one cares to look) might be so too, or simply accepting too much unprocessed information. Who knows unless others point out such to one.

 

[Twilight Hue]

Recently on social media I have been called "crazy" by multiple people

But I think this is good

Because it means that my thinking is beyond what is considered normal

And I don't think that normal thinking is necessarily good, indeed I think it can be unhealthy and counter-productive

Crazy can be a good thing

I'll take it as a compliment, thank you very much

Ahh...

 

[Brian2]

Ahh...

The last 3 photos were good.
https://www.google.com/search?q=mos...ome..69i57.18447j0j9&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8

 

[metis]

Recently on social media I have been called "crazy" by multiple people

But I think this is good

Because it means that my thinking is beyond what is considered normal

And I don't think that normal thinking is necessarily good, indeed I think it can be unhealthy and counter-productive

Crazy can be a good thing

I'll take it as a compliment, thank you very much

My son has bipolar disorder, and it has been both a curse but also a blessing. As a teen, he tried to commit suicide twice, but now he's 48 years old and owns his own construction company.

There's an old English adage that goes "It's the crazies that have made England great!". So, I remind my son and one of my granddaughters [she also has bipolar disorder and is just starting her graduate research at the University of Michigan on a full-ride scholarship] of this, thus that they should embrace the "drive" while also dealing in a constructive way with the negative effects.

 

[JustGeorge]

Recently on social media I have been called "crazy" by multiple people

But I think this is good

Because it means that my thinking is beyond what is considered normal

And I don't think that normal thinking is necessarily good, indeed I think it can be unhealthy and counter-productive

Crazy can be a good thing

I'll take it as a compliment, thank you very much

I've seen what being 'normal' brings, and I'll take crazy any day, thank you very much.

 

[It Aint Necessarily So]

Crazy doesn't have a distinct meaning, and the word probably should never be used to describe mental problems of any kind. I reserve it for metaphorical use, like it was a crazy party or these were crazy times in our relationship. If we actually mean mental problems, we should use more precise terms like phobia or psychosis or bipolar

A digression: An eccentric and colorful man who lived in my Mexican village until he recently passed away was a retired American attorney known locally as Pedro Loco, or crazy Peter, always with his trusted burro companion, Vino Blanco (white wine). But was he mentally ill? No, just different. His eccentricities didn't harm him, which I think is a minimum requirement for any mental variation to be called mental illness. As you might be able to tell from the painting below, he's become a local icon whose image is as recognizable as Frida's and the lake (Lake Chapala) and mountain (Mt. Garcia) in the background of both of these images: