[split] Sanity -- from the Humanities Zoo thread

[doolasmind#11]

i think you pretty much just hit it on the head right there when you said your perception. to me that is the only thing that matters in this world. because perception is very much reality and we all live in our own world, that's why the saying "its my world you just live in it" is funny but true at the same time. you are the summation of experiences from your past and emotions that you really have no control over. your thoughts and feelings can be congruent at times with other people but for the most part they are unique to you since no two people shared the same experiences and felt the same emotions through those experiences. every free thinker ie philosophers and poets at one point were considered "insane" by the established norm because they were attempting to break the mold. to me your feelings are completely normal, i am young as well and am still trying to "find" myself but to me in searching we have already found ourselves for we are the examiners, we are the ones who say "no you must explain that to me". socrates said the unexamined life is not worth living. to me you have already found yourself you probably just need a little bit of guidance but i would recommend to you any book by friedrich nietzsche especially thus spoke zarathustra or beyond good and evil.