Compatible Crazy

It's a phrase I have tossed around for years now and I still get some weird looks when I mention it, but I feel it is a valid statement when relationships are involved. I am not talking strictly about romantic relationships either. Friendships are subject to the same rules in my opinion.

See I look at it this way. You are born and you are sweet and innocent. Shortly thereafter, you start to develop and are influenced by all manner of things around you. By the time you clear high school you have been subject to so many experiences and personalities and outside influences that you can't help but develop some crazy. Then you go off to college where part of your job is to act crazy and hang out with even crazier people than you.

So by the time you are in your 20's, everyone is crazy in their own way. We all develop our own quirks and eccentricities. Something that if a stranger walked by you and caught you doing it or saying it they would be thinking to themselves that you are a nutjob. It's just a fact of life. Those 'normal' people are every bit as crazy too.. don't let them fool you. They are just less outwardly obvious with their crazy. Go check their closet and you will find how they have to organize every shirt and pair of pants by color/pattern/style and how if even one is out of place they won't be able to sleep soundly. EVERYONE has their own crazy.

So the key to relationships in this world full of crazy people? Compatible Crazy™ What you need to do is find someone who's crazy you can truly appreciate and who understands and appreciates your crazy in return. It is delusional to think that you are not crazy, or that you can find someone else that is not crazy to have a relationship with. Give up that notion now and it will make your life a lot easier.

Be yourself. Embrace your crazy. Wave your crazy flag high for all to see. What you will find is people that 'get' you. That see you and your craziness and think to themselves "I like his/her crazy" Those are the people you will truly connect with. If you find yourself hiding those parts of your personality to be what you think someone else expects or desires of you, STOP. You are doing yourself a disservice and besides, that person might just surprise you and appreciate you all the more for sharing the other parts of your personality. If they don't, at least you are being yourself and it's their loss at that point.

If you think you are having one of those days where your mental instability is overwhelming...just remember there is always someone a step ahead of you still. Like her:



Life is too short to try and be anything other than who you are. Embrace that bat-shit crazy person living in your head and be happy. Find people with Compatible Crazy™ and enjoy being you. Anything else is lunacy!