Crazy women do it better.

This article just reminds me why I've been attracted to crazy....

5 Reasons Crazy Girls Do It Better

There’s a certain little word that likes to be tacked on to women who choose to live outside a certain accepted norm. And this label is “crazy”. Not only does it put negative connotations to those who actually are living with a mental illness (not the people I am referring to in this article), it also paints these amazing women as the “other”, people to be wary of, to skeptical of, to not take seriously. Here I explain why, actually, crazy girls just do life better.

1.They’re actually not crazy at all.


“She transforms her own dark into her own light. She sees her private shadows – and loves them. She meets her own emotional depths – and owns it. She faces private fears of separation – and rises above the illusion. She is the source of her Self and she is always in a greater state of becoming.” -Molly McCord

The crazy thing about crazy girls is they’re actually not crazy at all. They’re actually ridiculously intelligent. The way they have chosen to live their life is a totally conscious decision, born from years of questioning the nature of themselves, others and the world around them, and deciding what is the best way for them. They’ve realized it is impossible that a one-size-fits all happiness model can work for all seven billion of us, so instead of listening to the advice of the powers that be around her she’s working out what serves her. Though others might see her making what they call mistakes as she forges ahead on this path, she just calls them lessons as she lovingly places them in her toolbox to learn from down the track.

2.They’re fiercely passionate


“And you tried to change, didn’t you? Closed your mouth more. Tried to be softer, prettier, less volatile, less awake… You can’t make homes out of human beings. Someone should have already told you that. And if he wants to leave, then let him leave. You are terrifying, and strange, and beautiful. Something not everyone knows how to love.” -Warsan Shire

The crazy girl is insanely passionate and doesn’t love by half-measures. Whether it’s a project, a subject, a place or the people in her tribe, if she loves something she loves it silly, throwing herself into it head-first. If she loves something she wants to smell it, taste it, learn everything there possibly is to know about it. She doesn’t understand how some people only show their love on special once-a-year occasions. Nor does she understand how some people vocalize gratitude in retrospect. She thinks any day is a good day to whip out some L and G, because she knows any single day could be someone’s last.

When protecting the things she loves she can be feisty as all hell. This is where the label “crazy” tends to come from, as throughout Western history a woman was deemed crazy or hysterical if she exhibited certain “symptoms”: emotional excitability, outspokenness and sexual desire. Slapping a medical condition on it made it easier for people to marginalize and make a mockery of. Now, the crazy woman doesn’t care what society labels her as, because she’s just busy doing her. She knows hurtful labels are just a small price to pay for living true to herself. She knows living a life of restraint would be so much harder. And that’s that.

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