Follow the call of your heart or listen to your polluted consiousness
Do you know it when a very surprising idea may come to your mind? Sometimes it’s just some goofy stuff, sometimes it’s a plain weird thing. Let’s call it The Idea. Our natural reaction to The Idea is to admire our own courage and creativeness, but afterwards say Goob-Bye to it as it is evident that we are not going to ever do that. Am I crazy?
Should I add that even if some of us are brave enough to expose The Idea to others, the poor thing is fiercely thumped upon by our sensible friends and it becomes even more evident to us that we should quit being crazy. We should forget about the stupid idea and think of something more reasonable. Sane. Yeah, rational. Normal.
But what is normal? What is evident? Aren’t those the words that people use to defend themselves from any change? Don’t you feel the fear that these words are emitting? These guys say “It’s obvious” and it means “I am afraid of thinking the other way”. They say “Stop being crazy” and they really tell you “It scares me that you can be better than me”.
So maybe you’re not crazy, but just different? Maybe it’s those little crazy tricks that make you unique? Maybe you should listen to your heart more than to bunch of nerds trying to keep you in the I-Don’t-Want-To-Seem-Foolish club? The club whose members are so righteous that they have no funny stories to tell to their kids?
Remember the happiest and brightest moments of your life? You do have some of those …unless you’re not already in the club.
But wait, what is that? The craziest things you’ve done in your life happen to be the happiest ones? That tiny moment, a rapid flash, when you kissed a stranger girl, takes up more space in your memories than a whole decade of coming to office at 9am and leaving at 6pm? How crazy is that?
God has created you to be unique. Remember that next time your heart will call you to do a weird thing. Don’t push it away. Maybe it’s just trying to remind you of who you really are. A little sand grain on the ocean shore that is so unlike billions of others.
