I've come to the realization that everyone I meet is suffering some degree of mental ilness or distress. In other words, we're all fucking looney tunes. And it's all a matter of how managable your craziness is. Some individuals conceal it better than others. I'm seeing a high prevalence of Obsessive-compulsive disorder and Manic Depression in urban areas (I travel a lot). But in my experience, I've discovered that us writers are the craziest motherfuckers walking around .... and we get away with it!
We get away with all our "eccentricites", which are, in fact, cardinal signs of mental breakdown that people overlook. We get away with it because we're "creative" right, and as a result, people are willing to tolerate larger doses of madness from us. Why? Because without us nutbugs, they'd have no entertainment from their relatively boring, stable lives.
I'm not sure why we're all a bunch of freaking cracker jacks but there is certainly a high correlation between those who write for a living and psychological unwellness. Some worse than others - and you know who you are you twisted, wounded, tortured souls.
We're also notorious substance abusers. Sometimes it's the only way we can deal with all the crazy shit that's swimming around in our heads. Believe me, I've never met a reasonably well-balanced writer and if you have, it's just a well-constructed front.
My madness, thankfully, is somewhat manageable. I'm a workaholic, then I go on massive party binges without concern for the consequences of my actions. One of these days I could wake up dead. I'm just going to leave that sentence as is, since you know what I meant by it and I'd rather not change it because I like the way it sounds:
Wake up Dead. Sounds like a story. I should write it. But first I need a drink.
We get away with all our "eccentricites", which are, in fact, cardinal signs of mental breakdown that people overlook. We get away with it because we're "creative" right, and as a result, people are willing to tolerate larger doses of madness from us. Why? Because without us nutbugs, they'd have no entertainment from their relatively boring, stable lives.
I'm not sure why we're all a bunch of freaking cracker jacks but there is certainly a high correlation between those who write for a living and psychological unwellness. Some worse than others - and you know who you are you twisted, wounded, tortured souls.
We're also notorious substance abusers. Sometimes it's the only way we can deal with all the crazy shit that's swimming around in our heads. Believe me, I've never met a reasonably well-balanced writer and if you have, it's just a well-constructed front.
My madness, thankfully, is somewhat manageable. I'm a workaholic, then I go on massive party binges without concern for the consequences of my actions. One of these days I could wake up dead. I'm just going to leave that sentence as is, since you know what I meant by it and I'd rather not change it because I like the way it sounds:
Wake up Dead. Sounds like a story. I should write it. But first I need a drink.
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i'm sure you'll get it a handle on it if you haven't already and your right i think stress and pressures have driven a lot of people down that path.
though i think it might be the radio active waves the government is bombarding us with everyday!