They say life is a circle but in actuality it is
more of a linear progression with some usual stopovers. We all live a life that
is decided and moulded and is imposed on us like some punishment. The day we are born to the day we are going
to die; we lead our lives according to a set pattern. Little deviance fetch us
criticism and tags and titles like abnormal or insane.
What is insanity? It can be defined as the state of
being foolish and irrational or being seriously mentally ill. You are sick to
be different.
I am not trying to justify unnatural behaviors which
are against the natural norms. What I am trying to plead here is that being a
bit different is not that bad after all. All the diversification we see today
is because of that little bit of non-conformity. This trait makes us humans
otherwise we are just robots who defecate.
I do get that that total deviance is not right but
deviance, abnormality and insanity in right proportions is good.
I believe that insanity is not that all bad. If you
find this statement wrong then ask Mr. Zardari. What sane have done to this
world, one wonders what insanity would have done to it? I mean the sane have
made all those utensils that can be very catastrophic in the times of insanity.
The sane gave us a bomb; they did not stop there and added more bombs to the
arsenal with very cool prefixes like atom, hydrogen and napalm etc.
The world we live in today wanted us all to be sane
but I question that what is wrong in a bit of insanity? I envy the insane sometimes
as loneliness is for us-the sane while being insane you can weave a world of
your own, can have likeminded friends and can debate with them on matters of
your liking. Above all those friends always have time for you.
Sanity has bought hate. They say no one in his/her
right mind can hate, demean or loath another human being but the irony here is
that all who have ever hated, killed in its name were in their right minds and
have found many supporters who supported and abated them in their heinous crimes.
This example suggest that sanity in actuality is just a choice and we make that
choice daily in our lives by doing what is expected of us.
This means sanity can be a zero sum game; opting for
one sane thing is done at the expense of leaving out another sane thing. This
also means that there is a greater sanity also and you can prioritize sanity
according to a situation. So, all those who supported Hitler were not driven
ideologically towards him but it was something that was sane thing to do at that
time with him being at the epitome of power in Germany. However, still there
were some “insane” enough to resist his draconian rule even at the price of
their lives. Dilemma here is that who is sane here those who conformed or those
who resisted?
The world of today owes all of its growth and
development to that person who in his moment of insanity dared to question
“why” and that why has snowballed into today’s how. We owe so much to not to
act normal. Deviance is not always bad. You should let go yourself sometimes.
Do not burden yourself to become someone that you are not.
In a world that is full of depressed and anxiety
ridden souls, knowing that you laugh a bit loud or shedding a tear in open
without being judged can be a bit of relief. Allow the people to be a bit of
abnormal. That mould is not for everyone. The freedom to say why and not yes is
a blessing. In a world of today, where there are only right answers, the
pleasure of being wrong is cannot be accounted for. So, cheers to all the
insane of the world that dared and kept the ball rolling.
