So, is insanity something society dictates and defines?

Or is it the mark of people who are different?

Is an insane idea something for me to run from? Or is it a thing that may make so little sense to the world because it's brilliant?

Albert Einstein's teachers in elementary school told him he was stupid and would never amount to anything. Galileo was considered a heretic...

If we didn't have psychotic people, would society advance at all? What if all the great thinkers adhered to what the rest of the world defined as "normal?" Would we still be at war with Nazi Germany and the Japan Empire? Would we have ever developed space travel? Would the Wright Brothers have ever gotten the inspiration to build a flying machine? Would Handel or Beethoven have ever written what we consider now to be masterpieces?

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I'm just trying to cast an insane idea in a true light. Will giving a year of my life to this crazy idea be worth... whatever? Or is this truly just another insane idea that won't amount to anything?

Well, the idea of an electric lamp was crazy. The idea of a horseless carriage was crazy. People said the idea of a personal computer for everyone in America was crazy. Hell, the idea that world was round was a pretty crazy idea when people first started suggesting it. More than a few people were burned at the stake or boiled to death for ideas like that...


Eh.. I guess only time will tell. Adventure awaits, and insanity, it seems, is more often than not proved to be brilliance.