Madness

Madness can be considered something like relative reality. While the outer world find the mad people mad, but to the mad people they might not find themselves mad at all. It’s not like when a person is looking into a mirror and thinking that the image might be staring back at him. But it’s rather like a writer who chooses to write like a mad person, and is thus considered mad by everyone else. While acting like a mad person, a not-mad person may become mad. But I am not saying that those who are considered mad by everyone else are not mad in real; they only act like so. Well if they really had done so, I would say they are the best actors in the world (the Earth and rest of the Universe). However, let’s come to the point: 

madness = relative reality 

How does the equation work? Let’s find out, shall we? While some group says that there are two realities - Relative Reality & Absolute Reality, the Buddhists say that the Absolute Reality is “nothing” id est what we see is what we believe to be true but actually there is nothing. But I don’t care about any of that. That’s too deep for me to dig with neurons and keypads. Instead, I’m going to introduce a new doctrine. Ha ha! Never mind that. Anyways, what I am saying is there is only relative reality. That is the reality we think is true. For example, suppose you are told that mushrooms are used as umbrellas by frogs. Since they look like umbrellas, you may find it very easy to believe that. So, whenever you would see a mushroom you can easily picture a frog sitting under it. That is, you believe that to be true, and that you do without any persistence. But it is not harming the world that what you know is just made-up. Frogs don’t use mushrooms as umbrellas. Those who know that know mushrooms are just umbrella-like fungi. So, here we find two realities: a) frogs use mushrooms as umbrellas b) mushrooms are nobody’s umbrella. These two realities are relative because each one when tested was found to be true. It is mainly because we already had a picture in our minds – mushroom as umbrellas & mushroom as mushrooms. Now if mushrooms are really used as umbrellas by frogs, the other group, who know that they are not, are not wrong; instead they just know a relative reality. The actual reality is only known by the frog, who either uses mushrooms as umbrellas or not. Hell with the frogs. No, not hell. Hell is already hellish. Hell with frogs will be too much hellish. Let’s spare the hell-dwellers, and Hel herself. Anywho, let’s get to the point, again. So, when we call somebody mad it is because a) we are taught that if somebody behaves in a particular way, he/she is mad b) we have set up a standard, and if anybody acts out of it he/she is mad c) we don’t really know, but we think that he/she is mad d) he/she is plainly mad. This is just one side of the coin. Let’s flip it.

*flips coin* 

*it falls somewhere & can’t be found anymore* 

*possibly the coin flipped but is now showing the first side still, but we can’t possibly know as it is lost; so let’s assume it has flipped and is now showing its other side* 

The other side of the coin shows what’s happening inside the head of the seemingly mad-person. The mad person is now possibly thinking that the world around him has gone mad. That people are behaving in certain ways in which only mad people behave. That people are not behaving by the standard he/she has set up. Or is it possible that the mad people (the ones we say are mad) can see and perceive realities in dimensions we are unaware of? Can they communicate to the worlds lying under the visible veil of the world we live in? Are the mad people really mad? Or they behave like that in order to guise their super human capabilities? Well, some move around naked. I don’t know how that guise works. I don’t know what more to say. Let’s end it here.

*gets up and goes to find the coin*