Sanity for the Insane?

Okay, I know Bart might not be your favorite character, but when I searched for images in yahoo it provided me mainly with pictures of Bush! After paying (or "giving" is what they call it here) 42.00 for one tank of gas I have no feelings left to defend that man! Speaking of insanity, I finished my last nursing rotation this week at the "mental hospital." I didn't like being locked in and up with these mentally challenged individuals! I spoke to rapists, murders, schizophrenics, antisocials for four whole days! I listened to them rationalize every action that they had taken, took, and will take. I came to learn that our minds are extremely fragile. You think that this couldn't and wouldn't happen to you, but think again! One minute you are a fully functional, sane member of society and then "pow" something or someone changes all that! I feel for the kids, the adolescents whose parents cared with so little regard to their safety and physical well being. Their actions are only reactions to the insanity that happened to them. I can't tell you what a gift "sanity" is! I walk around, living, breathing, seeing, and hearing what is truly there. I don't have delusions of grandeur, reference, religion, or paranoia! I have also learned and continue to learn through this psych. rotation, that in each disorder we find "a little" of ourselves! Don't believe me, look them up! Are you a little neurotic about locking doors, keeping check lists, manipulative of others, attention seeking, socially frightened of group settings, tired and fatigue, controlling of your exercise and eating habits, or think yourself more intelligent than others? You know who you are! We are who we are. Different. Unique, and sometimes slightly insane!

Where does the violet tint end and the orange tint begins? Distinctly we see the difference of the colors, but where exactly does the one first blending enter into the other. So with sanity and insanity.
Herman MelvilleUS novelist & sailor (1819 - 1891)