“the only people for me are the mad ones”
someone stumbled onto my blog searching for this.
well, i’ve been thinking about it.
my parents used to comment on why i seemed to collect all kinds of geeks, weirdos, junkies and misfits. i don’t even know if that’s entirely true. then again, there seems to be some truth in it. even in school i didn’t care for the “popular girls”, maybe because there wouldn’t have been a chance to be one of them, but then i wasn’t exactly an “unpopular girl” either. somehow i think i found the misfits more interesting. i may also have a little bit of a helper syndrome. (oops, just found a test “do you have a helper syndrome?” and scored 85 out of 110 points. anything above 50 says you tend towards a helper syndrome). i seriously hope it’s not to feel less weird myself. but most of all, i feel at home with the dreamers, the weirdos, the mad ones. i don’t really understand people who think in straight lines, i guess. they seem to have a narrower perception of reality. and i think nothing much would have been achieved in this world without a little bit of madness. it takes a twisted mind to think around the corners.
Ok, wow. This was the headline that the one and only woman I found interesting on match.com had. Sadly, it didn’t turn out to be true. I am indeed mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirious of everything at the same time. She didn’t actually seem to be looking for someone like that at all. She was lovely, nonetheless.
I suppose this is why, a continent away and an internet between, bine, you seem like a tribe-mate to me. Mad ones indeed.
… ditto, jase
that’s really strange, that someone would search for that exact phrase. i wonder if that someone was her, or someone looking for her?
it’s probably much more simple than that, lyrics from a tune or a poem i don’t know. but it kind of spooked me.
the phrase itself spooked me when i read it on my dashboard. usually people hit on my page searching “hep c pics”, “cologne graffiti” or “abassi video”. nobody looked for something like this yet. it really gave me something to think about. i understand why thor often writes answers to those search engine terms.
It’s a Jack Kerouac quote, so it’s probably not a big surprise, actually.
I need to subscribe to your comments feed. Not sure why I haven’t done that. Sorry to be so lagged.
oh. stupid i didn’t get that. i only read one of his books in english (the dharma bums), one in german (big sur). if it was in there, somehow that line eluded me. i still want to get around to “on the road”. i need a library card.
thank you for enlightening me!
It is indeed from “On the Road”. I tried to read it recently, when I was “dating” Julie – the woman with that quote in her headline. Didn’t get too far. Guess I’ll have to wait for the movie
my favourite quote from my favourite book!
it’s almost divine finding your blog after searching for this quote, and better yet that you acknowledge it.