I guess crazy attracts crazy. My family are rather conservative, but my friends, well that's a whole other story!!Of course it depends on your definition of crazy. I guess my definition involves words like non-conformist, spontaneous, adventurous, dreamers, your general social misfit.
Crazy people are interesting!
So , yes, I AM CRAZY! At least I hope I am.
I guess it was evident when I used to dip my salt and vinegar chips into my ice cream or lemonade at birthday parties in primary school. My high school group proudly called ourselves misfits. We were bonded , it seemed, by the fact that we didn't fit into any other group. In retrospect, we were all about reality. W didn't pretend to be anything we weren't, and I am happy to say that over 20 years later I still keep up with a few of them and despite all having VERY different lives now, we are still connected. And in my adult life I have been lucky enough to meet and collect a lot of new crazy friends along the way. Of course working in the entertainment industry helps with that, imagine if I was an accountant! Although having said that, I know some great accountants (2 are performers who were hiding out, or earning a living, as accountants)
Society expects a 40 year old woman to be married with kids and a mortgage. I got divorced and I don't have kids. People, mostly family, continue to ask me when am I going to find a new husband to look after me? I don't see this happening and in my experience, it's me who ends up doing the looking after.
I stayed with my mother recently while I was in the middle of a particularly grueling, and life sucking project and I celebrated another birthday. It dawned on Mum that I wouldn't have time to look after a family in the way that she did, with the work that I choose to do. Hats off to those who do what I do and manage a family, don't know how you do it. The point of me mentioning the birthday is that for a good week I was bringing home little presents from friends and showing mum photos of how spoilt I got at work. It showed her that I am happy and surrounded by people who care about me, despite not being in a traditional family model. It was great! My Mum has come a long way from her childhood in rural China.
Even medically recognized crazy is becoming more acceptable in society these days. Who hasn't been to a therapist or at least knows someone who has a medically recognized psychological condition? See, crazy is slowly taking over the world. Wonder what will happen if crazy became the norm?
As much as I condemn social stereotypes, where would we be without them? We misfits would have nothing to feel alienated from and we wouldn't know what we to rebel against. Ferris Beuller says isms (racism, fascism, sexism, etc) are bad, I agree, but a necessary evil. If we didn't have isms we wouldn't have crazy people.
I love being a turtle!!!
