The Only Sense Left To Me Is Humor
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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
"What sane person could live in this world and not be crazy?"
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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!
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!
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