What is Insanity?

Insanity is:

* when you have a strand of vegetable stuck between the last two teeth at the back of your jaw. You would love to wrench it out with your index finger if not for the people around you. You would reach for it after being excused to the wash room, if not for the false conviction that you could tongue the strand of fibre out. You couldn’t. You keep trying for the next hour.

* when you stare so hard at a monitor screen waiting for a moment of inspiration that the space around you begins to shrink and your instincts snaps you out of the hypnotic state only for you to start all over again… … it goes on for another four hours

* when you have the name of a song just at the tip of your tongue. It will roll so sweetly out, but just when you were about to pronounce the song title, all you could say is “blach”. You try to ignore this minor annoyance, but the chorus rings in your head like a jingle of a bad advertisement. You forget about the entire ordeal by the next day, only for you to try to remember what was that tune which you could not recall on the previous day. You remember the tune, but the title is still “blach.”

* when you are at Bugis MRT station waiting for the East-West train to take you to Orchard Road. The board reads 7 mins and you reason to yourself that 7 mins is not really that long as it is only 2 mins more than 5 mins and 5 mins passes by really fast if you occupy yourself with thoughts about how fast minutes pass as they are just a matter of seconds. You are convinced that the train will be here in the blink of an eye, and you check the board to be sure, it says 5 mins. You reason to yourself, 5 mins is fine, but perhaps you should not check the board so often, because time passes by if you don’t think about it. You check the board again, 1 min. You board the East-West train, alight at City Hall to catch the North-South train and at that point you check to see when the East-West train will arrive... ... ... ... 7 mins.

* when you are at the end of a Narruto episode after spending the last 3 hours telling yourself that I will watch only one more episode. Saske is about to kill Orange Boy and you tell yourself that I will stop once the fight is over, even though you know that it will not be over till another five more episodes because the monologues will take the better whole of 20 mins to make sense. But it is okey you tell yourself, it is only 20 mins, the clothes can be ironed later, the dishes can be washed later, and I can always catch my sleep another time.

* when you have another pile of assignments to mark and you are sitting before the computer thinking of moments that make a person insane... ... ... ... ... ...

... ... ... ... ... ... ... i hate marking assignments ... ... ...