Today I saw a stranger across the street, yelling utter nonsense in a language unfamiliar to me. He flung his hands around as if directing traffic as the rain drowned most of his words. Whatever he said was certainly lost on me; he might have been on some drugs or doing something he considered religious. He might have always been insane, or was just having a nervous breakdown. Maybe he was trying to tell us something...an inevitable truth that we keep supressing but will affect us greatly later.
He must be crazy, I thought, since he obviously could not supress his unusual behavior like everyone else. People are normal because they pretend to be normal. After all, if they can supress their strange impulses, than they must have enough control over themselves to do everything expected from them, so they could not be insane. But is this really the case? Maybe some people can just hide it better than others, and really don't have control. In that case, a perfectly-normal seeming person might not be so normal after all.
We all have quirks, and we do things that don't always make sense. I check the dryer after I take out the laundry to ensure I didn't leave any socks behind. It shouldn't have suprised me to see someone else do that yesterday, but it did. It seems pretty quirky to repress emotions that are "abnormal", eventhough everyone else has them anyway. That brings me to my final question: is it "stranger" to supress natural thoughts because society considers insane, or to express them because they are natural and society is insane?
