Understanding the crazy

Tackle a problem. Seek a truth. Try desperately to grasp patterns, to make sense of unconnected things. Use all your resources to channel what you’ve learned, gather knowledge, put the pieces together, form the greater picture.

And maybe you don’t have what it takes. You’ve got it all there, finally, but can admit to yourself that you’re too close, or too focused from a single perspective, or simply overwhelmed. Call in the troops. Assemble the wise and the trusted.

And then think for a moment how you will tell them what you know, how to present the puzzle pieces, how to verbalize what you think you’ve stumbled upon.

The world stops making sense, and words might as well be tinted chirpings of a wild bird. You can try all you want, but suddenly people are staring, pointing, eyebrows cocked and legs tensed to run away. And you know you’re THIS CLOSE, and you realize that it doesn’t really matter, and you just want it out of you, no matter how.

Maybe they’re not so crazy after all.

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