Love makes you crazy.
Regular readers recall I warned cathexis is not real love. “Don’t fall in love; it sticks to your face.” That is, you’ll always come away embarrassed when you follow the siren song of infatuation. Hormones are in serious need of intelligent guidance. Cathexis will make a serious fool of you, and in the worst way.
Readers may also recall I posted a fiction series on the students running a Peace Club, where I pointed out genuine love is just another face of peace and serenity and sanity. My “sanity” category on this blog includes all of these things, and more. That sort of love/agape will make you do the craziest things.
Most people define sanity as simply being typical, under the presumption “normal” is defined as “typical.” Wrong; damned wrong. Typical is merely the standard rate of failure short of normal, and it’s the majority in almost any context. But by that badly mistaken measure of sanity, those who embrace agape will seem utterly off the wall, and we rightly revel in this.
It’s the same stuff that finds someone delighting in shaking up the standards, the system which is so typically sad. So you splash paint on your best pants. Now splash more on it in some artistic pattern so it looks like some expensive print. Some of the best art comes from accidents which shock most people. And the best agape-art seizes the moment of the unexpected and makes it an opportunity to rejoice in that mystical power which makes no sense at all.
It’s not supposed to make sense. Don’t try to steer life, just do what you know you have to do. Expect the unexpected. Be the peace and love which drives the world mad to prove the world is already pretty sick. The greatest art is making sure the sorrowful norm gets a healthy dose of joy as the counterpoint. Find in yourself the utter necessity, that passionate drive to not accept the standard answer. The world is one big lie in the first place, so chase the truth.
The highest morality is doing what you really must do, with all the finesse and artistic flair you can muster.
