No great mind has ever existed without a touch of madness. ―Aristotle I sat there in her living room staring at her through teary eyes. “I feel crazy,” I said. “I don’t know what’s wrong with me.” “Why do you feel crazy?” she asked. “Because I’m neurotic and self- conscious and regretful, and so much more all at once,” I said. “And you don’t think everyone feels like this at times?” she asked. “Not like this,” I replied under my breath. “Well you’re wrong,” she said. “If you think you know someone who never feels a bit crazy and off-center, you just dont know enough about them. Every one of us contains a measure of ‘crazy’ that moves us in strange, often perplexing ways. This side of us is necessary; it’s part of our human ability to think, adapt and grow. It’s part of being intelligent,” she said. I sat silently for a moment. My eyes gazed from her eyes to the ground and back to her eyes again. “So you’re saying I should want to feel like this?” “To an extent,” she said. “Let me put it this way: Taking all your feelings seriously all the time is a waste of your spirit. You have to know that sometimes what you feel simply won’t align with what you want; it’s just your subconscious mind’s way of helping you look at things from a different perspective. These feelings will come and go quickly as long as you let them go as long as you consciously push past them.” We shared another moment of silence, then my lips curled up slightly and I cracked a smile, “Thank you, Grandma,” I said. Over the course of the next few hours we discussed the following – some ways we unnecessarily drive ourselves crazy:
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