On my walk into work this morning, as I passed a mum and her young son (presumably) coming the other way, I heard the lad, who must have been about 5 years old, proudly and loudly say: “I am a crazy, stupid person”. To my ears, he didn’t say this in a negative way implying that being crazy was bad or that he was stupid in the sense of being ‘thick’ but, rather, he seemed to say it in an excited and celebratory way. The message I heard was more like “I’m a bit bonkers and isn’t that fun?!”.
Now isn’t “I’m a bit bonkers and isn’t that fun?!” a great philosophy of life for a 5 year old? In fact, isn’t it a great philosophy of life for all of us? Go forth and be crazy, stupid, bonkers or a little mad at times. I think the world will be a better place for it…
Tim O'Hare 