The Blessings of Bitter Mercy - Part II (Maddness)

The Second Blessing: Maddness

Madness is viewed as a bad thing. Oh yes, a very bad thing. If someone is mad, humans view them with fear and hate…but maybe it’s because humans fear what they can’t understand. And madness is something that someone is in if that state is not what most people are in. When someone does something that we would not view in our relative view of being “normal”, then that is madness. There is no absolute definition we can give of being “normal”, so who are we to question what is “normal” and what is not? But we do question, and that is why we call some people “mad”. But is madness really as bad as it is cracked up to be? Think about it. For the most part, when you are mad, you lose your sense of right and wrong. The outer world and its mechanisms cease to exist for you. Your mind now lives in a world that it creates by itself. The superficial world is gone. You are the master of your world, a world that now exists as you chose it to. Isn’t that what we all really want? To be free from law, free from the obligations and difficulties of our present world, free from hypocrisy, diplomacy, false hopes, love, pain, despair and loss. Madness gives that opportunity. Though some unfortunate people end up living in a world worse than our present one, many indeed drift away into their utopia, smiling happily as they live their remaining life in their own kingdom. Then why do we fear madness? Why is it such a curse? It is definitely our fear. Maybe we attach ourselves too much to our superficial world that we fear losing all that we hold dear. Well, you can’t have everything now can you? If you wish to live in paradise, you have to leave what you have in the real world. Most people do not voluntarily leave for the realms of madness. It just happens. I guess we can consider them lucky in the sense that they are now free from reality, but would we voluntarily go mad as well? It remains to be seen. Maybe reality wouldn’t be that bad if we didn’t make it so. Oh well.

So what if everyone was indeed mad? Think about a world where everyone is mad, doing things that their heart chooses to do, and living in their dream worlds. What might happen? Would there be chaos, or would order still remain? Naturally, it is not possible for everyone to share the same ideas of utopia. Utopia for one maybe hell for another. And when such realms clash, chaos will occur. But this is not the only thing that might happen. When people start “trespassing” on other people’s paradises, then too problems will occur. So, obviously, it is not possible for everyone to be mad. Maybe it is for that reason that only a few are selected to enter paradise. But then again, there is no absolute definition for paradise!

The last one, I'll post a little later !!