"There is no great genius without some touch of madness. ... There are two great days in a person's life - the day we are born and the day we discover why. ... It serves as blinders to what may be just a few steps down the road for you. (as said by Aristotle)
If i take risks, if i am bold in my decisions, if i don't want to follow but make my own path... people term this as being Mad. But why? There is a thin line between mad and genius. Maybe the fine line which is there tells us that being Mad is not in fashion but being genius is definitely what everyone would love to be.
To me if i am willing to take risk, take a leap of faith with my ideas and bring my dreams to life is what a person would do logically. Sometimes logic takes a back seat when one is pursuing a dream project.
Maybe when one makes too many repetitive mistakes is what we call being Mad to follow a dream which has no results. Or is it we have not looked at other options? Sometimes to get the answer we want from a situation, we look at the solution from all angles to come to same conclusion again and again. Thats when our logic has taken a backseat and insanity has taken its roots.
We see many people pursing their dreams and when they don't get desired results either they get frustrated and leave it or become obsessed and follow it like a mad person. Either way there is no definite fine line drawn.
Its a standard perception that all creative people are mad / crazy. They live in their own world. the same goes for workaholics. But hard work pays, whatever we say about being resilient in our thoughts or our way of life. We all agree that the "Universe loves the stubborn heart". If i believe i can do it, then i will definitely make it happen. Thats the resilience which only a stubborn heart has.
I love to watch people immersed in their dreams and working towards making them a reality. There is a certain positive and passionate aura around these people. They are charged with energy and they make everything around them seem possible. What the outcome will be they are not bothered about, it a the passion which drives them for one specific goal ..." Make it happen".
Do we call them Mad or Genius?
If some one can define either of the two words it will actually help us all to come to terms with how we deal with life. Its not the above average IQ or answering all questions on MENSA which makes one genius in today's world. Tough i said something which might hurt many people's sentiments. But having a high IQ will get you to work for a large company or government on secret projects which actually many feel great in beginning to work on and then realise that they are just spokes in wheel like others to make someone else dream to become reality .
Today's genius is someone who can create his/ her own dream into reality. Common sense and hard work with above average IQ and maverick genes might just make a normal human a genius to bring a change in this world. Then this genius can go hire many high IQ geniuses to work for him/ her. Simple management lesson, hire people more educated than you to make your dream come to reality.
One cannot be always good, we do need to be bad too. Its like one cannot always stay in shadow, neither can one always stay in light. Balance is necessary to live and with this balance one can explore different traits and personalities which we all harbour within us.
We cannot move forward till we don't accept our mistakes and folly which we all make. We can keep blaming the system, people, life , work etc etc... but in the end if we cannot accept simple mistakes which we make, then there is no future to ever find balance.
Maybe we all are borderline mad, i don't know but i do know that we do have streaks of being a genius too. So maybe we are both with a balance which we can create with discipline over the years.
I am both eccentric and forgetful but i have accepted my personality traits and now use them to my advantage. There was a time this was my disadvantage. How to turn a disadvantage to our advantage is what acceptance teaches us.
Mad or Genius is not for us to decide. We are a sum total of all the madness we create in our life to find balance in end. We follow our dreams with resilience, we believe in something even if we have doubts about it, we follow people who we feel are speaking what we are seeking, we do things differently yet we are all working towards the same dreams. We want to desperately make it happen some way or other. We want results, we want instant gratification, we will break all rules if we have to, we will follow rules if we have to. Above all we are human.
We are built from every mistake we have made.
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