In the broadway play, THE MAN OF LA MANCHA, Don Quixote is near death. He has been mocked and scorned because he is a such a positive thinker! Finally, in a splendid self-defense, he asks the ultimate question.
"Who is crazy?"
Am I crazy because I see the world as it could become?
Or is the world crazy because it only sees itself as it is?
Who is normal, the cynic or the believer?
The positive thinker or the negative thinker?
The believer in a supreme Creator-or the atheist?
The despairing pessimist or the hopeful optimist?
By now we all know the answer!
We must affirm that health is normal and sickness is abnormal. That basic value judgment is beyond controversy. Unbelief is a sickness and skepticism is damnably dangerous. It give birth to a multitude of demons that can malignantly destroy your mental health and spread an epidemic of despair wherever you go. As soon as you surrender yourself to negative thoughts, you become host to an infectious disease and become the carrier of another epidemic of gloom and doom. It is normal for a child to dance and laugh and play. It is not normal for a child to be downcast, morbid, withdrawn and sulking in isolation. It is normal to be a happy believer.
Who is crazy? The realist or the idealist?
The answer is obvious. The Beautiful Dreamer, with his visions of glorious possibilities!
