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My New Year's Resolutions

Every year around this time, I resolve to be a better person by making New Year’s Resolutions. But lately I’ve been thinking. Why do I bother to make resolutions when some time around February they’re all shot to hell?

Walking the Line Between Creativity and Insanity

“Schizophrenia may be a necessary consequence of literacy” ~Marshall McLuhan

I came across an article that stated there was a strong correlation between creativity and psychosis. This wasn’t the first time I’ve heard this, but it got me thinking.

Through time, some of the most creative minds were connected to people who have been labeled anywhere from eccentric to flat out crazy. Examples of such people are, Edgar Allen Poe, Ernest Hemingway, Lord Byron, Van Gogh, Kurt Cobain, Andy Warhol, Rembrandt, and Michael Jackson, to name few. I’m sure I could list more people but I’d be blogging all day.

While I don’t completely agree that all people who are creative should be fit for straight jackets, maybe there’s just a little bit of weird in us all. How many of us saw that episode of Oprah where Tom Cruise was jumping on her couch like a lunatic? How at the Grammy’s one year where an artist calling himself Soy Bomb jumped on the stage with Bob Dylan and started dancing like a man on fire? What about when Prince changed his name to a symbol? Kinda nutty right?

And let’s be honest, how many of you have met an author, or an actor, singer, dancer, musician or anyone in a creative field and said: wow, that people is one breakdown away from a psych ward? Or maybe you’re the zany one in your social circles.

Perhaps it’s all part of the package. I’ve been known to have my offbeat moments, like spontaneously breaking out into dance in grocery stores or singing theme songs to old 80’s sitcoms for no reason at all. But you know what? I don’t think crazy is necessarily a bad thing in a lot of cases. Maybe being a little wacky helps the creative process.

Though you try to fight it, perhaps the crazy can’t help but to come out. So I say, unleash it and the possibilities are limitless.

How do you unleash your inner nut?

Eve Vaughn
One Island…One Woman…Two Studs
Stranded~Now Available at Samhain
www.evevaughn.com