"Madness is entirely relative and perhaps comes and goes in frequent or infrequent bouts. Madness grows like a bubble, trapping the infected inside so that the uninfected can watch it all happen. This is madness. Or is madness the doorway through which we enter into freedom? Freedom might not specifically entail the game of “don’t get burned” or destroying one’s dinner on purpose, but such a flagrant disregard for creature comforts and our ideas of order help us to let go of that which does not matter in order to make more room for that which truly does. Certainly embracing pain and recklessness so thoroughly or the destruction of one’s money and material possessions isn’t at all necessary, but it does work to eliminate the fear of pain and poverty. Eventually, that which truly matters might be all that is in our minds before our lives bring us to the point where that which truly matters is literally all that we have, creating a convenient segue from madness into wisdom."
-Josh Dies
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