Relative Insanity
Sometimes it dawns on me that I may just be the only sane person in the entire world. But of course, just as I think that, the inverse occurs to me as well – that such a thought may mark me as the crazy one. This seeming paradox is represented in my mind by the taichi symbol used to express the relationship between yin and yang – you know the one.
On each side there’s an absolute color, black or white, but embedded in each area is a small dot of the opposite color. So on one side you’ve got me – let’s say the black dot in the white area – being the only sane person. But the complement to that, on the other side – the white dot in the black area – is me being the insane one in a sane world. Which is reality? Perhaps both, perhaps neither. And maybe, much like yin and yang, the opposites are not in conflict, but complementary, and the border between sanity and insanity is not so stark, but rather fluid and transitional.