When was the last time you did something completely crazy? I don’t mean crazy in a rule breaking, chaotic, lets-go-wild sort of way, though that’s ok too. What I mean by crazy is something just so completely different than your usual self. Something simple, but yet it feels so innately alien to you that it’s crazy. Or just a simple act but that which is so inexplicably pleasurable that it’s crazy.
I live alone. Once I am back from work, i plug in my earphones and listen to music or watch TV shows. I can hear those sounds right in my ears. The only other sound is the whirring of the fan and that’s outside my ear plugs. Then one day, I am watching an episode and I start laughing. And in two seconds I go quiet. It was crazy!! Laughing out loud in my empty room was just an entirely new experience.
It was as if I could feel my room fill with the vibrations of that laugh. I could feel it bounce against the walls and come back to me. The silence was suddenly filled with that laugh and it was wonderful. I laughed for about two minutes straight after that, just so I could prolong that feeling. Those two minutes seemed as if I was not alone any longer. I told my friend that it felt great to laugh out alone and he said I was crazy. Yes, it was crazy good! It’s not something phenomenal. But in an otherwise regular day, it was pretty something.
Once in a while, it’s good to indulge in the crazy stuff. It keeps you sane. When everything in life goes as planned, it’s easy to put things on auto pilot and cruise through. But that also means we are just floating by without actually experiencing anything. The same-ness and security could be numbing. So a touch of crazy is essential to shake things up a bit; to remind us that there is so much more to be experienced out there.
Security and planning and the guarantee of a smooth life is reassuring. But it’s also limiting. Once you know a particular way of life to be safe, you never look at other paths. Other paths werere beyond the thorny brambles await the greatest of adventures. It is only when you take a chance on doing something crazy, like taking the ‘other’ path, that you discover that your life is pretty something.
So as Dumbledore said,
Let’s step into the night and pursue that flighty temptress, Adventure
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