Thursday, November 1, 2007

Urban Jungle

The newspapers are plastered with stories of Faisal Khan suffering from schizophrenia. The latest is that his father Tahir Hussain has been awarded his custody inspite of Amir Khan's two page appeal in the Mumbai Mirror on why he, and not his father, should be given custody of Faisal Khan (though I fail to understand why Amir Khan or his lawyers would share his two page appeal with Mumbai Mirror, and then complain that their intensely private family matter is being splashed in the media!).

People often wonder how human beings go insane. I wonder how we manage to remain sane, amidst all that goes around inside and outside of us! We live in crazy cities, work stressful jobs, have a maddening lifestyle, manage & juggle numerous relationships at any given point of time, each with its own set of issues. Life is always demanding things of us. Besides there are so many chemicals being secreted in our brains all the time. One little imbalance here or there, and we risk losing our sanity! Mental balance is such a fragile thing...How do we manage to maintain it amidst all this madness and hysteria?!!

It's an extremely scary thought...and equally intriguing.

Reminds me of the song 'Crazy' by Seal...

We're never gonna survive
Unless we get a little crazy
No, we're never gonna survive
Unless we are a little crazy

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