The man who gets drunk and doesn’t realize he’s awake, just like the madman who doesn’t say he’s normal. How will you have to prove yourself to be convincing enough?
01.
People always say: Don’t try to explain who you are to anyone. For those who understand you won’t need that. Those who don’t understand you won’t believe you.
However, if you put yourself in the following situation: You are accidentally being mistakenly taken to a mental hospital, you need to explain or prove how to make the doctors here believe that you purely a normal person and agree to let you go?
In the following story, there are 3 people who have really fallen into such an unbelievable situation.
At a certain psychiatric hospital, on the way to transport patients, a driver carelessly failed to look carefully, allowing 3 mental patients to escape. In order not to lose his job, he drove the car to a bus station, pretended to be a normal driver and offered to carry passengers for free.
There were 3 normal people who trusted him and got in the car.
This driver hurriedly closed the door, driving them straight to the hospital as patients. Of course, they tried their best to explain that they were just ordinary people, but none of the doctors here believed them.
In the end, those three people were locked in the hospital, forced to take medicine, receive treatment and live like real mental patients for a very long time. It was not until 28 days later that they were freed.
So how did they end up saving themselves?
When asked, the first answered that:
“I think, if you want to go out, you have to first prove that you are a completely normal person, not mentally ill. So I told them the obvious truth that always holds true, that the Earth is spherical. I say the same every day.”
So in the end, did the first one succeed?
No problem. By the time he repeated this for the 14th time, paramedics had given him an injection in his ass and forced him to sleep.
Then, on the second person’s turn, he shared that:
“From the very beginning, I told them that I was a sociologist. I also talked about my achievements over the years, even mentioning the former president of the United States, Bill Clinton, and the former prime minister of the United Kingdom, Tony Blair. Well-known names are more persuasive.”
So then, does the second one succeed?
The answer is still no. When he started talking about the South Pacific islands and the names of their leaders, the doctors gave him a shot. After that, the guy didn’t dare to say anything more.
What about the third person?
All the third person has done since his arrest is do nothing. He didn’t try to explain anything to the doctor, but simply lived as it was supposed to. When it’s time to eat, eat, when it’s time to go to bed, go to sleep, when called to check, do the test. When the medical staff came to shave, he would kindly thank them.
Just like that, they discharged him on the 28th day.
After that, the third person came to report everything to the police, thereby rescuing his two remaining unlucky companions.
It can be concluded that it is very difficult for an ordinary person to prove that he is normal. Maybe it’s only the person who doesn’t try to prove anything is really a normal person.
02.
Similarly, we also have a “Color Blindness Paradox” which has been a controversial topic in the community.
This paradox is known to a very strange group of people with color blindness, they always see green as blue, and blue as green, and there are only two colors: something different from most people.
Of course, the person with this color blindness himself does not know what is different from others. Because when he looks up at the sky, even though he sees it as green, he calls it “blue” like everyone else. When he looks at the grass, even though he sees it as blue, he will also call it “green”. So, in the end, neither the person who is colorblind nor the ordinary person notices the difference between themselves.
This paradox leads one to ask two questions:
Question one: How do you tell him he’s different from everyone else?
The second question: How can you prove that you are not the main character in the story above?
03.
People who use all kinds of methods to prove that they are ordinary people, that what they know is true, that knowledge they have is rich, that they are rich with what conditions they own… may be considered crazy, only they themselves do not know.
Because the more you want to prove something, the more indirectly it says that you are lacking it. A person who is not mature enough has to find a way to show others how mature they are, because they fear that they will be judged as immature.
The key here is not how you are yourself, but how others judge you.
But it is a fact that, no matter how simple you are, in the eyes of the complex, your simplicity can turn into intrigue. No matter how sincere you are, in the eyes of doubters, your sincerity can turn into a lie. No matter how dedicated you are, in the eyes of those who don’t understand, you can still be seen as ignorant.
We have never judged a person based on a certain set of standards. A lot of the time, impressions are largely determined by personal feelings. Who will determine whether that feeling is right or wrong, normal or abnormal?
Therefore, do not be too concerned with other people’s judgments, if you understand yourself, you do not need to explain, if you do not understand yourself, then it is useless to explain. No need to explain to others, just be yourself!