Here’s to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes…

beautiful, mysterious & sublime.

I once had a girlfriend in college (well – we felt the emotions for a week; in truth, this was early our freshman year and she had a boyfriend back in high school with whom she didn’t have the heart to break up yet) who described math as “beautiful, mysterious & sublime.” I never saw standard math or even algebra that way. Chaos theory, yes. But she was an odd one… I always like the odd ones.

“Best damn description of depression I’ve ever read”

Depression completely robs you of hope. You don’t believe things can get better, and you don’t believe anything is OK. You look around you and realize that everyone and everything you love is going to go away, sooner or later, and you don’t believe anything good will replace them. Sometimes you just want to self-destruct: you get so tired of waiting for the things you love to abandon you, waiting for that shoe to drop, that you push them away pre-emptorily . Take that, you thing I love, now you can’t hurt me, now I don’t have to live in fear.

We’re “crazy, not lazy” … get it right!

When I saw the part about how many, like me, have perceived [psychiatric] drugs as ‘weak’ and that all I had to do was one day ‘just be strong and snap out of it’, my view of the whole situation finally started to change.

Apple Computer has created some of the best commercials ever; “Here’s to the Crazy Ones” has been my favorite ever since it came out…

Here’s to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes…

Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do.