In sane is Insane

Some months back , I purchased two books by Paulo Coelho from a roadside shop .. Their names VERONIKA DECIDES TO DIE and BY THE RIVER PIEDRA I SAT AND WEPT .. The former one is all about INSANITY and the latter about LOVE .. I never expected it to prove my title "IN SANE IS INSANE" but fortunately it did ..

After the hard work I spent for my II year exams , my mind deserved the inner peace which it acquired by reading VERONIKA DECIDES TO DIE .. I was in a sort of addiction to Paulo Coelho's words and thoughts after losing myself to his LIKE THE FLOWING RIVER .. and the book didn't let me down .. But it took a long time to complete this book .. It traveled with me to Kodaikanal absorbing the scorching heat of Madurai ,lying on the dashboard of our car, through the course of travel and emitting it back in the cool hill station trying to keep itself warm ..Finally I had to finish reading it in the back benches of my PSM(preventive and social medicine) class - the most boring lectures ever given this year ..

Let me start with some of his thoughts which I loved ..
# .. what is reality?
Its whatever the majority deems it to be.Its not necessarily the best or the most logical, but its the one that has become adapted to the desires of society as a whole .. #

Now lets use some examples ..
# .. a ridiculous , useless bit of coloured cloth tied in a very complicated way and which makes it harder to get air into the lungs and difficult to turn the neck ..
This is how an insane describes a tie that ppl use around their neck ..
Now whats the use of it?? its not even purely decorative since nowadays its become a symbol of slavery, power, aloofness .. The one really useful function a tie serves is the sense of relief when one gets home and take it off .. he feels as if he had freed himself from something , though he quite don't know what it is..#

# .. Now we all use the QWERTY keyboards in our homes , offices , everywhere in the world but do we know why they are arranged in that particular order .. NO ..
The answer is here .. The QWERTY keyboard was first invented by Christopher scholes in 1873 , to actually slow down the pace of typing .. Bcoz if the keys were arranged in alphabetical order , the pace of typing would be fast and the keys would get stuck and the machine would stop working .. so it was deliberately done to type more slowly ..
As time passed , the same keyboard was used in computers without knowing what the real reason was .. And if someone changed the pattern and manufactured new keyboards (like a GENIUS), there would be none to buy their products and he would be labeled INSANE .. #

# .. The same thing happens to a clock in a cathedral in Florence , designed by Paolo Uccello in 1443 .. The curious thing about the clock is that ,although it keeps time like all other clocks , its hands go in the opposite direction to that of normal clocks .. At that time , there were clocks like his as well as others with hands that went in the direction we are familiar with now .. for some unknown reasons Uccello's clock then seemed an aberration ,was considered a madness .. #

# .. each human being is unique ,each with their own qualities ,instincts,forms of pleasure and desire for adventure .However society imposes on us a collective way of behaving and people never stop to wonder why they should behave like that..
Forcing urself to be the same as everyone else causes neuroses, psychoses and paranoia . Its a distortion of nature , it goes against God's laws , for in all the world's woods and forests , He did not create a single leaf the same as another.But people think its mad to be different .. #

I end this by staring into the keyboard which I type in and into the watch strapped in my forearm and quoting the following ..

"Walk in the ways of thine heart ,
and in the sight thine eyes ,
but know thou , that for all these things
GOD will bring thee into judgement ."

It doesn't matter who's right ...
It matters who's correct ...