To what extent do people keep hidden their thoughts because they do not want to appear crazy? I suspect that everyone harbors, from time to time, an irrational fear, a bizarre desire, or an innocuous obsession. We may indulge these thoughts privately, but never tell anyone about them. I think of the time I told some friends that I would like to raise goats. This is, from what I can tell from the reactions of my friends, an odd desire for someone like me to have. Perhaps it is not logical or practical. It is certainly unconventional, but it is a genuine wish. And people laugh as though I were crazy or deluded (though I do not think they think less of me) when I tell them this.
I don't think that I am alone, though. Everyone has strange thoughts that they don't tell people. Not necessarily dangerous ones, but thoughts that could elicit ridicule, mockery, misunderstanding, or simply dismissal from others. Thoughts like the fear of monkeys, the desire to start laughing in class, the intense wish to learn Hungarian for no reason, a curiosity about the color of the spleen, anything. I wonder what other people are thinking right now.
6:42:31 PM 
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