Being Crazy In A Sick Society

Society is the environment where we are born, develop, live, and then die. By default,
everyone perceives it in a unique way depending on own interests, lifestyle, family, friends, and
the people you interact with every day. In spite of this, society for me is the sum of everything
we call indifference, violence and materialism. This is like a common disease about which not all
people know. Therefore, to be normal is to be sick. Someone once said that ‘it is no measure of
health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.’ However, being born and brought up in
such a society, most people can’t realize that it is sick, let alone that they are part of this sickness,
just like fish, which, living in water, cannot realize that they are a part of the sea life.

First of all , in today's society, being "normal" means washing the brain from a very early age
for more than 12 years through what we call "education" or school; to work as a slave almost all
this life on a salary of nothing and to compete with others to ensure your survival ; or another
example is to consume constantly in an unconscious manner all sorts of products as a result of
marketing manipulation, all the while destroying the planet that sustains us and killing our
organisms by consuming food that leads to disease; to follow the rules and believe in the dogmas
transmitted by those with authority; to be passive and lacking in creativity; to suppress yourself
in innumerable ways; to live in pain and yet do nothing to overcome it. This way of living is not
all right, it is like a difficult disease accepted and considered to be healthy by almost people.
Those guys who are able to live in this way are considered to be the most successful, they are the
most respected, while those who are different, more conscious and intelligent, those who want to
follow another conduit in life, are ridiculed and perceived in a negative manner as if they are
strange or even "crazy".

Secondly, this society determine you to became the personality that you don’t really want to
be, such as a cowardly, antisocial, silent guy isolated from the rest of the world. Beside this
people use to judge and discriminate even they don’t have idea who are you, what do you feel at
this moment and what is happening in your mind. Thereby, when nobody accepts uniqueness,
when you feel incomprehensible, and when others try to prevent you from expressing your
authenticity or when trying to bring you to "normality," you can easily lose your courage and
become anxious and unhappy. That's why some of the greatest minds of the world have faced
serious psychological and emotional problems. And even if now, long after their death, they are
recognized as geniuses, when they were living they were considered "crazy" or strange.

To sum up, if you want to live as you think it is right , and not as others expect, you have to
be daring , a little crazy, crazy in line with society standards, listen to your inner voice, you are
following your call and not interested in what others think of you, being willing to face
difficulties without giving up your goals and doing your best to make your dreams come true.

Marin Mihaela , AI, anul 2