Many Are Mad

~ Gottfried

An ancient dictum says that when the gods want to destroy someone, they first drive them mad. I’m really curious as to the second thing the gods were willing to do. I mean, what’s worse than being mad? A great many men are mad, and no one knows it, they do not know it themselves. I was told to check my attitude. I did, and it’s still there. It hasn’t gone anywhere.

You’re asking me? I wasn’t mad, but now that you’ve asked me SEVEN times if I’m mad…yes, I’m mad! I am livid! I don’t usually lose my temper. But if I get angry, it’s true, I’m scary to be around. Cause I’ll be smiling and chuckling to myself which are indeed the early symptoms of full-blown madness.

Boundaries of madness. If someone gets mad at you for creating a boundary, consider that a good sign that the boundary was necessary. That awkward moment when someone gets mad at you for clicking a pen, but you have to click it one more time to use it.

To be mad is to care. If I didn’t care about you, I wouldn’t get mad at the things you do. So many things can drive you mad as a kid, not only music. Ever make a girl so angry that she skips the anger and goes straight to laughing like a lunatic? You know a girl is mad when she starts off her sentence by saying, “I just find it funny how” because there is a 99.9% chance she did not find it funny.

Madly in love. Unless it’s mad, passionate, or extraordinary love, it’s a waste of your time. There are too many things mediocre in life, love shouldn’t be one of them. There are so many times I made you mad, irritated, upset, and tired. Today I just want to say that I’m thinking of continuing. The jealous are possessed by a mad devil and a dull spirit at the same time. Humor is reason gone mad.

Many that are not mad have, sure, more lack of reason. Many people hear voices when no one is there. Some of them are called mad and are shut up in rooms where they stare at walls all day long. Others are called writers and they pretty much do the same thing. You’re not mad, you’re just a writer. A mad writer. You see craziness is what makes the world go round. Without crazy, there wouldn’t be passion.

Sometimes you have to get angry for things to get done. I pulled a stunt once at a crowded banking hall because they were taking too long to attend to me. After screaming at everyone in the hall, I was escorted to the Managers office and promptly attended to. I had a wide grin on my face as I walked past the crowd on my way out. Madness indeed works! The mad person that knows that they are mad is close to sanity.

That’s mad

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386 thoughts on “Many Are Mad”

  3. 🌚😂😂Bruh you’ve got an incredible sense of humor.

    Now understanding madness…I like how you defined mad in a creative way. What gave you the idea?

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  5. “I pulled a stunt once at a crowded banking hall because they were taking too long to attend to me. After screaming at everyone in the hall, I was escorted to the Managers office and promptly attended to.” You always say something outrageously funny at the end gottfried, you’re one of a kind my friend 😹😹

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  6. One of the worst and possibly major factors in my personal and professional life turning a sharp corner was a lady who was wrongly diagnosed as mad and dragged literally kicking and screaming to an older people’s secure mental health unit. This was in the 90’s when I was still only 19yrs old and new to the job but even then, age and inexperience aside, I knew that woman was as lucid, clear and sharp as I if not more so. Didn’t matter to the psychiatrist that cut me off every word I tried to speak, wrote her off and saw her bundled away mind you but some 10yrs later I learned about a condition called Charles Bonnet Syndrome which causes vivid complex hallucinations mostly in people with deteriorating sight but sometimes experienced by people who are completely blind. When I read that my mind was cast back to sitting in that lady’s flat who wore an eye patch and even suspected the hallucinations she was having might have been caused by a recent eye op she’d had. She was right too. I can still see her leaning forward and saying “I know they’re not real because every time I try to touch one (children or dogs mostly) they disappear. Look if I try and touch this one – gone. I’m not love, honestly” and I knew she wasn’t but it made no difference.

    Nothing can make a person seem and sound mad like repeated pleas for people to believe they aren’t mad. I’ll never forget her as long as I live and only hope she can at least now understand and forgive that I couldn’t do more.

    On the subject of mad as in anger, nothing infuriates me more than people who push, press and pry when someone doesn’t want to talk. As discussed several times on your blogs, I’m a fiercely private person anyway and tend to go far away from people to do my crying and don’t feel at all comfortable doing it around others.

    If I see someone is upset, I still ask if they’re OK and whether they want to talk or say if they can’t talk drop me an email or explain via Messenger. Sometimes it’s the actual talking and getting over the first part people find hardest so I don’t care how someone does it or in what way if it allows them to get over the first hurdle.

    If I ask someone if they’re OK and they shut me down quickly, I treat that in the same way I expect which is hard but still “OK well clearly you’re not but I won’t bug or press you about it. Just come talk to me if and when you want to do there’s no pressure and no time limit just yell”

    It infuriates me more than I can even put into words when someone won’t accept that and goes tripping and chasing around all “Please tell me what’s wrong? What’s wrong? Please tell me I need to know what’s wrong please tell me”

    That is someone whose need to know what’s bothering you is all about them. The hardest thing in the world is knowing a loved one or close friend is going through what you don’t understand and can’t help with but the right thing is to do whatever is right by them. People that shelve or don’t even grasp that concept and actively make someone feel even worse because it makes THEM feel better? They get it and I take no prisoners and make no apologies.

    Sometimes people (usually women too I’m afraid to say) will insist they’re fine and don’t want to talk about something that’s clearly giving them the huff and puff then have the audacity to get angry when you respect that and don’t chase them around trying to get it out of them.

    I’ll even say “OK I’m not chasing arse and asking you about it again but either get yourself together or just spit out whatever it is you have a problem with and we can have it sorted and done with”

    That’s when I’m suddenly the bitch and the horrible one and people decide they like or loathe me. I don’t give a shit either way up as long as they straighten their face and stop sulking.

    Again it’s why I prefer the companionship of animals. They’re so much simpler and anger between us is short-lived and based on things like them having to get showered cos they rolled on something dead in the field. They don’t want to be showered and I don’t want to shower dead things off them. We understand each other lol!!!

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    1. This was quite I read. I’m inclined to agree with you about the lady. Shame what partial blindness can cause. But to be hastily interpreted to be madness is an even greater travesty. I do keep a keen eye out for supposed “mad” people in the streets. Some are just hungry.

      Bugging someone who is going through stuff is never the answer. Blackmailing them while you’re at it is just plain cruel. But in truth, sometimes they need a kick in the gut to stop wallowing in self pity.

      If a lady asks to be left alone, it were better you respect her wishes. If she gets pissed about you doing as she had asked then she’s just a lunatic.

      Animals are indeed the higher of the animals. We as humans are so advanced, yet so flawed. It’s actually ridiculous.

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