Special kind of crazy.

I've often mentioned that someone or something is crazy or a special kind of crazy.  Let me try to describe crazy to you in my mind.

With a tip of the hat to Edwin Abbott Abbott picture a point in nothingness.  That point is you.  Now imagine a line extending out from your outstretched arms.  Along that line is more people.  Now imagine a line extending vertically through your body with, you guessed it, more people.  That's only two dimensions, let's add a third, so now we have a line of people in front of you and a line of people behind you.  Truthfully, I think that this model would work best if we could think in more dimensions than three (or four if you include time), but we will stick with three.  The farther away from you the more crazy they seem to you.  Pretty simple isn't it?  Take it to the next step, you're not the center.  There is no "center" because the lines of people (aka behavior and belief) are infinite.

If there is no center then there can't be a "standard" for sanity.  You could say that there is a "societal" standard for sanity however since it is all based on behavior and beliefs then that could change in a generation or even as a fad.

What does all of this mean to me?  Everyone is a little crazy.  Cops here gunfire and run towards it.  Makes sense to me.  Firefighters run into burning buildings.  They are crazy.  Both of those are examples of "special" kind of crazy.  We need those people that do things that someone else considers "crazy", without them we wouldn't have so much.  All of the first responders are a little crazy.  One could argue that entrepreneurs are a little crazy as well as artists.

Good, we need more "special" kind of crazy in the world.  I try to add my part.