Looks like my Reality Check bounced!
A little tip for you here. Remember you can be 'Mad' and it can be ok. Honestly.
You see the question really is not are you mad or sane.
The question or deciding factor is: how well is your madness working for you?
So many people have illusions that do not serve them. They think everyone is against them. That their boss/parents/kids hate them. They hallucinate that if they are not owning a certain product or wearing the 'right' label (in this year’s colours) that somehow they are lessened.
They fear their bum is too big or their hair is falling out. That without two feet of make-up on and perfume, they cannot possibly be seen out at the shops because clearly they are ugly and they stink without it.
You may recognise these sorts. These people are called 'Normal'.
And then there are us others.
We 'hallucinate' how good we are going to feel when we have achieved our goals - and we elect to start feeling good about it NOW. We use that energy to propel ourselves relentlessly toward our objective. When it rains - rather than getting down about it and bitching - we start singing in the rain because we know nothing we do will make it not rain so we might as well enjoy our circumstances while we are here.
We spend a good proportion of our time living in the future - a future of our own creation, just as we have created our present too. Warts and all. We step up. We take the responsibility.
We do 'happy' when to the entire world we have nothing to be doing 'happy' about.
Ok - clearly we are barking mad, right? But why are 'we' happier than 'they'?
I once heard it said that the difference between Madness and Genius is measured in success.
So I ask you again: How well is your madness working for you?
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