Of Insanity and Geniuses

Lemme start with a very basic question: what unites Jim Morrison, Richard Branson, Socrates and Syd Barrett....they r all grt people yeah...but more than that they are all damn ecentric ones...eccentric to the level that if we try to emulate them, we might over and above been labeled nerds/weirdos might be shun off our social circles... So, didnt they face this porblem...this fear of falling on the other side of the thin boundary between insanity and geniuses....i guess they didnt...they were just what they were without fearing the repercussions of failing or thinking too much about what others have to say/think abt them...n thats what makes them great...the believe in themselves...n the absence of a stupid risk reward matrix in their lives.. We, people like you and me...maybe good but we are too constrained in our minds and actions by what society thinks of us..what society wants us to do and worse, what as per society are the parameters of success and accepted behaviour....n mind you society also includes people whom we love, who are close to us and whom we value...n i personally think this kills some latent competency/greatness in us. I personally believe that every person in this earth can do one thing better than anyone else...the trick only lies in unearthing that one thing...but then what if that one thing is not in the ambit of acceptibility...forget it and join the herd.... i have seen many kids being brilliant in one thing or the other...be it sports, theatres, music, etc etc...but many parents, put this activities in the realms of extra-curriculars and hence being thought of as intrinsically instrumental in digressing a child's thought from what he is supposed to do...STUDY....crazy man..how come every child on earth is supposed to excel in one single thing...study this brings me to my first point...insanity...there have been men...lots of them who have shunned this societal boundaries and have done great..true many have failed as well...but as a ratio, the fraction of thought insane but later genius in the universe of insane people is much more than the fraction of all geniueses in the large universe comprising all we apparently normal people.. So... u r disheartened....well, I am for sure!!!!