The Makings of a Crazy

Everyone is raised under different conditions. How you are raised can say a lot about you and can define you in some ways, but you can also choose to deviate and learn from how you are raised to be a better and bigger person.

One of the things that I was raised on and continue to accept and execute, is hunting. I was taught early on how to fend for myself and live off the land if needed. We would go camping all the time to learn the basics and then for things like using a weapon to hunt and get food from animals, we would watch and be taught about safety but we weren't allowed to try until we were older. We would learn and help with skinning and gutting the prey however and so I have become fairly confident in my skills to live off the land on my own if I needed to.

From some of these skills, I developed some interests that not everyone in modern society is a fan of. Activities like cleaning the bones of deceased animals I found on the side of the road, examining their skeletal structure, and then possibly going so far as to make new items from them, giving them new life as jewelry or wind chimes. Now there are certainly plenty of people who do the same activities and find themselves interested in the processes and see beauty in the practices, but it definitely is not for everyone.

Think back to the Salem witch trials. There were girls who would sing and dance and experiment with natural remedies, these people were ostracized and ultimately cut out of society through one means or another. Society still does this to an extent today. You participate in an activity that the people around you don't agree with and they will shun you, they may even go to the extreme and have your psyche evaluated to see if you are fit to remain with the common folks.

Now my activities are not so absurd that I personally think they make me crazy but some folks I have come in contact with, feel as though what I enjoy and how I talk of the activities in a cool and collected manner, make me a sociopath. And honestly, all I can say is to think what you want, but I know that I am fine.

Although, that is what a sociopath would say isn't it?