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MycoolFitz 06-18-2012 12:31 PM

The Only Sense Left To Me Is Humor
 
Having been blessed with GAD, depression, PTSD, sleep disorder and social anxiety, I had to laught when I came across this quote.

"What sane person could live in this world and not be crazy?"

Ursula K. LeGuin

Zencat 06-18-2012 06:07 PM

"Insanity is relative. It depends on who has who locked in what cage." -Ray Bradbury

NYCDoglvr 06-20-2012 12:28 PM

When I came to AA, I wasn't restored to sanity I was introduced to it.

Threshold 06-21-2012 07:44 AM

Ha ha, Zen, that is what I was thinking...that it would depend on how one defines sanity.

Humor is seeing the absurd in a situation.
I think insanity is denying the absurd and going crazy trying to make things make "sense" rather than being OK with how they are.

Self definition can get me in a whirlpool of WTF!?

Meaning..if I take on my diagnosis as the final word on who or what I am...I'm toast.

If I allow myself to be driven crazy by what I am not...I'm toast

If I allow myself to be driven crazy by some idea of who I, or others "think I should be"...I'm toast.

Today, I'm me, sitting on my bed, typing on my computer, thinking about getting ready for work. I am so much more than a bizarrely introspective recovering addict. I get tired of being "on stage" in that guise so much of the time. It's boring, it's exhausting.

It's a program running in the backround of my mental computer, to be sure, but it's not always what I have I my main screen.

Humor is the ability to see the absurd in a situation. Good thing we have THAT! Yes, yes, AMEN to that!

ClayTheScribe 06-21-2012 11:44 PM

"In a sky full of people, only some want to fly, isn't that crazy?" -- Seal, "Crazy"


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