Totally insane!

            Every great person was insane, every great person is insane. Atleast that’s what we  think of them. Let alone mad scientists, who had the highest level of insanity. Take examples of Michael Faraday, Isaac Newton, Plato, William Kamkwamba, Mark Zucherberg, Thomas Edison, Albert Einstein you mention them. If we know them, it’s because they did something so rational that the world once laughed at them. It’s almost as if irrationality is our definition of insanity.

            Albert Einstein defined insanity as doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. I might sound insane; taking a definition of insanity from a supposedly insane person but perhaps somewhere within the lines of insanity arises sanity. There are insane people in the world but we accuse the wrong people of insanity. Somehow, we have come to think that conviction and insanity mean the same thing.

            Real insanity is doing the same thing and expecting different results, it is putting ordinary efforts and expecting extra-ordinary results. Insanity is doing nothing and expecting results. It is doing what is expected than acting out of intuition. Great people on the other hand are not afraid of rejection by family, friends or kinsmen; partly because they are really crazy but mainly because they know what insanity really is.

            All through history, change makers were deemed insane. Jesus was labeled a crazy drunkard and he turned to be the Messiah, Plato was considered crazy, it happens that he now defines all our politics, Marie Curie was dubbed crazy for combining womanhood and science, guess who ended up with two Nobel prizes. William Kamkwamba was already labeled crazy before he brought electricity to his village. At this point I’m starting to think insanity is actually not an offense. If someone calls you insane, it’s a modest way of saying you are probably going to make history and I can’t stand it.

            I’m insane, because I dream a lot, and I have a knack for doing what I’m told not to.  Better insane than dull; After-all insane people define civilization. I don’t mind being labeled as that kind of person anymore actually; I think it’s a compliment right now. I believe everyone has some sort of insanity waiting to be unlocked. Afraid of being insane? Join my ride, let’s make life amazing!