They say insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result.

But I don't think of it like that.

It's like going to the store and forgetting your purse in the car.
Or forgetting to pack your toothbrush when you stay overnight.
Or when you're so tired that you can barely keep your eyes open, but you read another page, another chapter, because you can't wait to find out what happens next.

I think people confuse insanity with persistence.

Because insanity is such a vast description.
I mean, we're all insane!
Because no one has the same definition.

Think about it:
What does it take to make you say, "That person is out of their mind insane!"?

Because for me, I can't really say it.
And maybe it's because I've done some pretty stupid things.

But even if it's out of my mind, it might be exactly in theirs.

Because maybe that senior in high school, who sent the same application to twenty different schools, finally got accepted.

And that man who called his girlfriend thirty-seven times, and she finally picked up on the thirty-eighth.
And maybe it was out of annoyance, but she still answered.

Because persistence is pushed by emotions.
It's striving to achieve something.
It's the desire to overcome an obstacle.
The want that is stronger than the little voice in your head saying, "This is stupid."

And maybe that man broke up with his girlfriend after she had an affair.

Or that senior, who dropped out of college to join the US Army, and ended up saving seventeen innocent citizens' lives.

Because that's not insanity.

And maybe the next time you go to the store, you remember your purse.
Or maybe tonight's the night you finish your book and finally knows what will happen.

But maybe, you still forget your toothbrush again.
And maybe, just maybe, I'm "insane" enough to buy you one to keep here.

What if it takes to "insanses" to become in sync?

Persistence drives up to our destination, it's our decision to stay.