The Bell Curve

"When you're strange,
No one remembers your name.
When you're strange.."
-The Doors

YOU are strange. No I'M not.

When I was in Elementary School, I was TOO quiet. When I was in Middle School, I was a Spiritist. When I was in High School, I was a vegetarian. I always wanted to be.... Kristina.
I had a childhood friend of mine who wanted to tattoo "Insanity is Sanity" on her obliques, she would tell me that we are all insane to someone, making us all insane, making us equally sane. She does not know how much her words affected my life. Those very words are a main reason why I want to do research within Psychology. The Bell Curve of our time is one where we medicate to create a desirable distribution; to be on any extreme is to be STRANGE.
What do we do with people who are strange? We prescribe! Are you feeling sad? Take this. Too much energy? Take this. Not getting enough sleep? Take this. Are you getting too much sleep? Take this! Are you nervous? Take this! Are you anxious? Take this! Are you different??! TAKE THIS!!! Oh you don't want to take this??? Well then, LOCK HER UP!! Put her away!! Or better yet, call her a Schizophrenic and let her ROT on the streets.

We are letting society turn us into robots.

The Bell curve, The Cave, The Matrix, are merely limits that we set on our lives. Reality is not as we see it, our senses are flawed beyond REASON.

"I'm not going to change the way I look or the way I feel to conform to anything. I've always been a freak. So I've been a freak all my life and I have to live with that, you know. I'm one of those people. "
-John Lennon