"There is always some madness in love. But there is always some reason in madness."
- Friedrich Nietzsche
This idea is so perplexing to me. When you imagine madness, you think of chaos. Madness is without rhyme or reason, clarity or answers at the end of the day.
mad·ness
nɪs
noun
1.
the state of being mad; insanity.
2.
senseless folly: It is sheer madness to speak as you do.
3.
frenzy; rage.
4.
intense excitement or enthusiasm.
Reason is exactly the opposite of madness.
rea·son
noun
1.
a basis or cause, as for some belief, action, fact, event, etc.: the reason for declaring war.
2.
a statement presented in justification or explanation of a belief or action.
3.
the mental powers concerned with forming conclusions, judgments, or inferences.
4.
sound judgment; good sense.
5.
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normal or sound powers of mind; sanity.
Nietzsche says that there is always some madness in love and that is first of all, because love itself is often without reason. Even if you can describe why or how you love someone, usually, the feeling is there or it isn't. Love leaves you doing things that to a reasonable person, seem insane, and you can rarely reason with your heart. Secondly, chaos is just chaos. Chaos theory is as real as any force or theory in the universe; it just exists, like gravity. Scientists actually study its randomness, it's also called "The Butterfly Effect".
love
noun
1.
a profoundly tender, passionate affection for another person.
2.
a feeling of warm personal attachment or deep affection, as for a parent, child, or friend.
3.
sexual passion or desire.
4.
a person toward whom love is felt; beloved person; sweetheart.
5.
(used in direct address as a term of endearment, affection, or the like): Would you like to see a movie, love?
One of the hardest things I have had to do is write on a piece of paper the pros and cons of staying and leaving a relationship, because essentially, I had to force my feelings, which are absolutely without reason, into categories that could make sense to my brain. There is always a battle between your heart and your head, and that I guess, is due to chaos.
I will tell you where I have grown the most. It's since I realized and accepted this.....
Love is a lesson.
Sometimes you just have to accept the love you feel, regardless of what sense it makes or doesn't make. You cannot control it, just like you can't control the weather. Stay in it, walk away from it, but don't think you can wrap your mind around why it doesn't make sense.....it just doesn't and honestly, you can learn more from accepting it in the form it came in rather than forcing it to be something it is not. Sometimes you have to walk away rather than to try and make it fit into the circumstances that are not. Sometimes you have to just let love take you in the direction in which it is blowing you and realize that resisting it is the real insanity. Sometimes you have to accept its madness.
I have actually learned to do this, and if anything, I am proud of myself for just accepting the circumstances where I learned to love regardless of the fact that everything was beyond my control and even more so, knowing that it will come again one day.
Muse, Madness
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