And if you're lucky enough to survive going crazy and get back to the point where you can pass for normal, it builds a question into the rest of your life. You have to forgive people for wondering, 'How all right can he be?'
Interpretation
Surviving madness leads to self-discovery and creates questions about one's normalcy.
This quote highlights the journey of returning to a state of normalcy after experiencing profound distress or madness. The speaker suggests that this experience shapes one's perspective and influences how others perceive them, emphasizing the importance of forgiveness towards those who question your stability after such a tumultuous journey.
In practice
In a motivational speech about overcoming mental health struggles.
Most organizations don't fall apart as a result of one big blow. Most relationships don't end because of one grand argument. Most lives don't fall to pieces due to one sad event. No, I suggest to you that sustained failure happens as the consequence of small, daily acts of neglect that stack up over time to lead to a blow up - and break down.
You have no responsibility to live up to what other people think you ought to accomplish. I have no responsibility to be like they expect me to be. It's their mistake, not my failing.
It is a great delusion in those whose understanding has been darkened by self-love, to think that there is any obedience in the subject who tries to draw the superior to what he wishes.
Love of action is not industry.
Certain people, in their eagerness to construct a world no external threat can penetrate build exaggeratedly high defense againts the outside world, againts new people, new places, different experiences and leave their own world stripped bare. It is there that bitterness begins irrevocable work.
The young are so old, they are born with their fingers crossed.
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