Due to the frenzied state of mind I currently inhabit because of this lovely datasheet, my topic today will be universal insanity. I realize I am the product of my own issues on the datasheet front, so I take full responsibility of the stress ball I have become. I guess that sets me aside from Laeddis in Shutter Island and that intense insanity, so at least I have that. This insane stress over something, in the grand scope of our lives, pretty meaningless, has made many of us insane, one-upping monsters. If you don’t think we’re all insane, think again my friend! I will use another excerpt from Carrie Fisher’s Wishful Drinking because it was apparently a hot topic a few blogs back. She comments on the ridiculousness of the tests for something as intricate as insanity:
“If you say yes to any number of these questions, you, too, could be insane.
1. In the last week have you been feeling irritable?
2. In the last week have you gained a little weight?
3. In the last week have you felt like not talking to people?
4. Do you no longer get as much pleasure doing certain things as you used to?
5. In the last week have you felt fatigued?
6. Do you think about sex a lot?” (122-123).
It would surprise me if any of my loyal readers replied no to all of these questions. We are all a bunch of lunatics shuffling around day after day. Now, I am by no means declaring we should get electroshock or lobotomies to balance our systems, much the opposite, I like that I have come to terms with it.
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| Carrie Fisher's novel Wishful Drinking combats her history of alcoholism and drug addiction |
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