IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII think I just lost it.... (but that's okay, it was fun!)
While chatting on facebook with a friend:
(friend:) im free tomorrow. and sweety, MY work schedule is different than eeeeeeeeeeeveryones!
(Me:) -each line is a separately entered line of chat text.-
yeah, good point. X)
and tomorrow.....
saturday.. yes. kay. that should be fine.
I had to check what day tomorrow was... my days become a blur.... actually... the hours do too....
notice how I'm so talkative.... i haven't slept yet....
probably should do that....
but, alas! no rest for the cramming fangirl
I have to finish about 24 SEASONS of star trek to see and understand the new movie when it comes out in 2 ish months....
i'm kind of thinking it's humanly impossible.....
BUT! like Walter Bishop said, from the TV series Fringe.... (which is another sci-fi) "When you open your mind to the IMPOSSIBLE, sometimes there you will find the TRUTH."
(Friend randomly logs off without warning)
aaaaaand I'm just talking to myself now aren't I.
Well, how are you Adena? Isn't this a lovely day we are having!
"well Donna, It is but those birds outside are rather annoying at the moment."
yes, but Adena, if you listen a bit closer you can also hear crows! those are your favorite!
"ah yes, you are right Donna. I do hear them.... reminds me of a story I'm writing.... about this guy who's followed by crows.... My good friend Anthony did a photo edit of a cuckoo clock that has to do with the plot. I wonder how he's been doing... he kind of just abandoned me."
well I don't blame him adena! you are a pretty crazy person! and I'd know! your'e talking to ME!
"yes, well maybe your'e right.... but being a bit mad is good don't you think? at least we can equate my possible insanity to 'an overly creative mind'...."
True, but still, Adena, for the record, I think you need a brain scan.... either you have a tumor, or your'e quite simply off your rocker!
"or, Donna, I just need you to SHUT UP so I can go to sleep!"
Suit yourself, but don't come crying to me if you don't finish all those Star Trek episodes before May 17th.
"FINE. well don't act surprised if I don't talk to you anymore Donna!"
(friend conveniently comes back online right at the end of that last line)
"hahaahahahahahhaahaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa. good timing
I just had a row with myself"
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And just because it's on the topic, here's a bunch of quotes about madness, specifically one's I can relate to or understand:
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“I am interested in madness. I believe it is the biggest thing in the human race, and the most constant. How do you take away from a man his madness without also taking away his identity?” ~William Saroyan
“Every man has his follies* - and often they are the most interesting thing he has got.” ~Josh Billings (*lack of good sense)
*“A child born today in the United Kingdom stands a ten times greater chance of being admitted to a mental hospital than to a university ... This can be taken as an indication that we are driving our children mad more effectively than we are genuinely educating them. Perhaps it is our way of educating them that is driving them mad.” ~R. D. Laing (*I wonder if this statistic is similar in the USA?)
*“Idiosyncratic belief systems which are shared by only a few adherents are likely to be regarded as delusional. Belief systems which may be just as irrational but which are shared by millions are called world religions.i.e. When a man suffers from delusions he is described as mad but when a million do so they belong to a world religion.” ~Anthony Storr (*I think I'd prefer to go 'mad' alone in my belief, rather than it become something like a disease that no one can get rid of...)
*“Madness is to think of too many things in succession too fast, or of one thing too exclusively” ~Voltaire (*this quote describes me best.)
“It is only too true that a lot of artists are mentally ill- it's a life which, to put it mildly, makes one an outsider. I'm all right when I completely immerse myself in work, but I'll always remain half crazy.” ~*Vincent van Gogh (*I think this just made Vincent tied for my favorite artist. He's tied with Salvador Dali, who I feel is just as crazy as van Gogh.)
“Madness takes its toll. Please have exact change.” ~Unknown
“Here's to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They're not fond of rules. And they have no respect for the status quo. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them. About the only thing you can't do is ignore them. Because they change things. They push the human race forward. And while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius. Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do.” ~*Apple Inc. (*Advertising done right.)
*“It is sometimes an appropriate response to reality to go insane.” ~Philip K. Dick (*It's probably easier to accept that, than the broken world that surrounds us.)
“There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.” ~*Friedrich Nietzsche (*never knew who this quote was by... I'm really glad I know now.)
*“I have found both freedom and safety in my madness; the freedom of loneliness and the safety from being understood, for those who understand us enslave something in us.” ~Kahlil Gibran (*there is freedom in not being understood, because as soon as someone understands your madness, they are then the one metaphorically holding the gun to your head.) ...wow that bit in bold is something I just wrote, and it kinda sounds like these quotes!...
“All living things contain a measure of madness that moves them in strange, sometimes inexplicable ways. This madness can be saving; it is part and parcel of the ability to adapt. Without it, no species would survive.” ~Yann Martel
“Was I ever crazy? Maybe. Or maybe life is… Crazy isn’t being broken or swallowing a dark secret. It’s you or me amplified. If you ever told a lie and enjoyed it. If you ever wished you could be a child forever. They were not perfect, but they were my friends.” ~Susanna Kaysen
“Maybe each human being lives in a unique world, a private world different from those inhabited and experienced by all other humans. . . If reality differs from person to person, can we speak of reality singular, or shouldn't we really be talking about plural realities? And if there are plural realities, are some more true (more real) than others? What about the world of a schizophrenic? Maybe it's as real as our world. Maybe we cannot say that we are in touch with reality and he is not, but should instead say, His reality is so different from ours that he can't explain his to us, and we can't explain ours to him. The problem, then, is that if subjective worlds are experienced too differently, there occurs a breakdown in communication ... and there is the real illness.” ~Philip K. Dick
*“When you are mad, mad like this, you don't know it. Reality is what you see. When what you see shifts, departing from anyone else's reality, it's still reality to you.” ~Marya Hornbacher (*I wonder if I really am mad, if I think I'm mad, but don't really believe that I'm mad when I say I'm mad, because I know that when one is aware that they may be mad, it makes them not mad... and I still believe that I am in touch with reality, but maybe that's just the madness talking...)
“Crazy people are considered mad by the rest of the society only because their intelligence isn't understood.” ~Weihui Zhou
“Who but the mad would choose to keep on living? In the end, aren't we all just a little crazy?” ~Libba Bray
*“Time and I have quarrelled. All hours are midnight now. I had a clock and a watch, but I destroyed them both. I could not bear the way they mocked me.” ~Susanna Clarke (*a blanket over my window, and I rarely check the time... that is how I pass the days. or is it hours? I can hardly tell anymore...)
*“I don't possess these thoughts I have --- they possess me. I don't possess these feelings I have --- They obsess me.” ~Ashly Lorenzana (*when someone figures out a way for me to turn my thoughts on and off like a tap, I'd like to be the first to know... I don't have a problem with all these idea's coming into my head and running around rampant, I'd just like them to slow down into a nice brisk jog, and let me sleep on them once and awhile...)
*“Men have called me mad; but the question is not settled whether madness is or is not the loftiest intelligence -- whether much that is glorious -- whether all that is profound -- does not spring from disease of thought -- from moods of mind exalted at the expense of the general intellect. They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who only dream by night. In their gray visions they obtain glimpses of eternity, and thrill, in waking, to find that they have been upon the verge of the great secret. In snatches, they learn something of the wisdom which is of good, and more of the mere knowledge which is of evil. They penetrate, however rudderless or compassless, into the vast ocean of the ‘light ineffable’.” ~Edgar Allan Poe (*That's the difference between the effects of just dreaming while you are asleep, and when you also dream while you are fully awake.)
*“Human madness is oftentimes a cunning and most feline thing. When you think it fled, it may have but become transfigured into some still subtler form.” ~Herman Melville (*Be wary, one may never truely be rid of madness.)
“Madness need not be all breakdown. It may also be break-through. It is potential liberation and renewal as well as enslavement and existential death.” ~R.D. Laing
'You don't seem mad at all,' she said. "But I am! Although I'm undergoing a cure, because my problem is that I lack a particular chemical. However, while I hope that the chemical gets rid of my chronic depression, I want to continue being mad, living life the way I dream it, and not the way other people want it to be." ~Paulo Coelho (excerpt from: Veronika Decides to Die)
“I have lived nearly fifty years, and I have seen life as it is. Pain, misery, hunger ... cruelty beyond belief. I have heard the singing from taverns and the moans from bundles of filth on the streets. I have been a soldier and seen my comrades fall in battle ... or die more slowly under the lash in Africa. I have held them in my arms at the final moment. These were men who saw life as it is, yet they died despairing. No glory, no gallant last words ... only their eyes filled with confusion, whimpering the question, "Why?" I do not think they asked why they were dying, but why they had lived. When life itself seems lunatic, who knows where madness lies? Perhaps to be too practical is madness. To surrender dreams — this may be madness. To seek treasure where there is only trash.*Too much sanity may be madness* — and maddest of all: to see life as it is, and not as it should be!” ~Dale Wasserman
Hope you enjoyed those quotes, and my commentary. Maybe someday I will be known for quotes such as these...
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