Did You Know You're Crazy?

I touched on this topic briefly in my earlier post but I think it bears repeating in more detail. You are crazy. Seriously. I can't believe how long it took me to realize it but you're crazy as hell. In fact we're all batshit crazy and the best that we can do about it is to try and figure out in what ways we're crazy, and then find someone who can handle it.

Right now you may be saying to yourself, I'm not crazy. I'm normal. This is false. I guarantee you're effed one way or another and because you think you're normal you can add denial to your list of issues. Or maybe you're a little quirky but it's charming and adorable. Bad news: quirky = crazy; and while some people may have told you that they find your little eccentricities cute they actually want to punch you in the face. How do I know? Easy - they noticed. If your need to eat the items on your plate in alphabetical order truly didn't bother them they wouldn't have even picked up on it.

In addition to being crazy in one way or another, everyone is insecure. Sometimes these insecurities make sense and other times they're so absurd that the urge to slap the bejeezus out of people is overwhelming (try to control that urge, by the way). For the longest time I thought I wanted to meet someone who had no insecurities. Turns out I just wanted to meet a woman who didn't have the same insecurities as me.

This is why opposites attract. Can you imagine if both you and your partner had OCD? I mean sure the toilets would be so clean you could boil pasta in them but breakfast would take forever as you each counted out 167 Chex pieces and measured 382 milliliters of milk. What if you both were sleepwalkers? Who the hell is going to take pictures of you peeing in the dryer if your partner is busy standing naked in the front door, asleep? Find someone you can stand to be around and settle. There are no perfect soul mates but there are hundreds of people who's collection of idiosyncrasies, psychoses, and disgusting habits won't drive you to murder, and therein you can find as much happiness as you're likely to get.