Sometimes it’s amazing how things work out.  Now, I’m not a genius in any since of the word.  But, it’s kind of funny how no more the a few minutes ago (relative to the typing of this post) I was just commenting to a friend of mine, about how sanity is “Is a kin to stress.  Stress is when we want to Choke the @#$^ out of someone that probably deserve it but don’t (as quoted from a few tee-shirts, bumper stickers, and a e-mail or 2). Sanity is  merely the ability to not say something that you want to, but maybe should”.  I mentioned I should write a blog post, explaining it more.  Not that my blog is any sort of big deal, but just because it was a place I could put my thoughts down.  So I hit up my favorite first reference, Wikipedia, which granted isn’t the most academically accepted knowledge store, but good enough for me now. As I look up Sanity, I find this:

A theory of sanity was proposed by Alfred Korzybski in his general semantics. He believed that sanity was tied to the structural fit or lack of it between our reactions to the world and what is actually going on in the world. He expressed this notion in a map-territory analogy: “A map is not the territory it represents, but, if correct, it has a similar structure to the territory, which accounts for its usefulness.”

via Sanity – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

I have to laugh cause this is pretty much what I was talking about.  Basically put, what is defined as Sane is based on what we believe to be normal.  See that guy walking down the road talking to himself (not his bluetooth, that’s a different topic), lost it right? Maybe, or maybe he just doesn’t care if the normally internal discussions we have with ourselves are brought out externally.  Because talking to yourself is against Societies norms, then he would be labeled as “lost it”. But again, that is just due to how Society view it.  Here’s the real fun part, Stress is going against what you want to do. You stress out when someone cuts you off because you really want to put your car into their trunk, but don’t want the cost or other related problems.  Stress likewise is generated, when you choke down words or actions because, well they aren’t normal.  You increase your stress when you can’t dance to that song you really like, because if you’re anything like me, trauma teams would be called because someone thought you had a seziure. Now for someone that has “lost their sanity” this isn’t an issue, as they are bopping away happy as can be.  So by constantly maintaining our “Sanity” we are actually stressing ourselves out.

Of course the question then is, should we all dip over if it would make one happier? Well that would be technically impossible (ready for the headache).  For example, if everybody started talking to themselves out loud, then that would be come the norm, and thus, sane.  So we could never truly all lose our sanity, as the bar would then move with society.  Beyond that, really, somethings are better left unsaid out of politeness.

Now, is the loss of sanity the same as being Insane? No, I don’t think so.  There is a difference between where one just doesn’t stop themselves from going outside of socal norms, and when one can not stop themselves due to some physical disorder.  Which, how to detect the difference is probably a topic of discussion of much more learned individuals (doctors, and lawyers) than myself.

So to my friend (Chris) See, guess I’m brighter than I thought, to my niece… No comments about my intellect from the peanut gallery.  To everybody else… Goodnight.