Are you certified, or certifiable?

I don't think I have to answer this question....

The latter.

certified craaaaaazzzy

I was certified a long time ago.

Certifiable and hopefully I will peaceful die soon.

If I can borrow a line from Kris Kringle, "I hope I'm crazy because if I'm not then everybody else must be and that would be simply too terrible."

I'm a certifiable nut job ;)

Dearest Happy,

That is another of your interesting, creative questions...thinking of Ignaz Semmelweis (1818-1865), the Hungarian physician who has been called the saviour of mothers. He introduced the simple practice of doctors handwashing in chlorinated lime water, which reduced deaths from puerperal fever (childbed fever) from one in four down to less than 1%.

But in his own time, his physician colleagues were highly offended by the idea their hands might need washing, and Semmelweis ended up in an insane asylum.

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And the answer is yes, in my own way I am certified. I also stood firm on what I knew, but in my case the compassionate judge believed me, and had no other way to find in my favor than to put me in a category of being a bit nuts.

And I am not sure you can really be true to yourself in our society without stepping a bit too far away from the norm...thus becoming certifiable...ah, the adventure of life...