"If This is Love" by Jazmine Sullivan...if this is real / it's funny how it makes you feel...I can't see a life without love...
If I haven't mentioned this song already, this song is the meaning of life. Straight like that.
After this, I will leave it alone. I promise.
It is just that to dismiss a person as "crazy" is...is to dismiss a person. It is to categorize them in such a fashion that ignores the struggles, the pesonal vulnerabilities, the biological susceptibilities, etc. that brings a person to "crazy". No one is just born "crazy". There are environmental factors, personal coping mechanism (or lack thereof), and genetic variances that all contribute to what you see as crazy.
It is akin to the days when people with anxiety were categorized as cowards and those with mental retardation as "possessed". There are fundamental and explanatory concepts missing from both categorizations.
And that is what upsets me, I think. That he knew/knows all that has contributed the condition I was/am in (am I out of that condition?). There were things that happened, decisions I made, a disastrous social infrastructure, an innate vulnerability and some more things that I am probably not aware of but I am simply dismissed as crazy.
I don't think that's accurate and I don't think it's fair, but it's okay. Yesterday, I smoked a black and I missed him. Never felt that before.
It ain't easy and it gets hard, but I can't see a life without love...But, this song, "If This is Love," is the meaning of life, because Love, In Fact, Exists (LIFE).
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