When You See Crazy Coming, Cross The Street

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When You See Crazy Coming, Cross The Street ~Iyanla Vanzant.

When you see crazy coming, cross the street. Don’t go over to say hello. Don’t let yourself get pulled into the center of the bomb. Tick tock. Tick tock. It WILL go off. It is only a matter of time. Don’t be a casualty. Watch. Listen. Be alert and know when to get the hell out of there. Skip. Walk. Run away as fast as you can.

If you need to talk about it, then do. But be careful who you talk about it with. You never know who is listening, lurking, watching or reporting back. Confidential isn’t ALWAYS confidential– a lesson I learned first hand from two human resource departments. Don’t talk about it in a gossiping way. This does nothing but make for bad karma. Talk about it for healing and rebirth.

Don’t try to understand it. It is pointless. You can’t make sense out of nonsense. Trying to understand it will drive you battier than a baseball dugout. Let it go. Let it go.

What does crazy looks like? You know. You have seen it, felt it, or even experienced it before. It can be as obvious as the person standing, nude in the middle of the street muttering obscenities out loud to as subtle as the back-stabber silently spreading untruths about you. Sometimes crazy can only be picked up by a feeling. That erie, creepy sense that causes the hairs on the back of your neck to stand at attention.

Have you ever noticed that we are the only mammal that senses something is wrong and continues to go towards it?Deep within we are programmed to protect ourselves–to stay away from that which threatens our peace and serenity, yet we continue to go towards it.

Drama can suck EVERYTHING out of you. Make you lose your focus. Screw up your thinking. Drain your energy. Bring you down into the dark hole of despair. There are three sides to every story; his, hers and the truth. You will never know the full truth from someone who doesn’t trust you.

People will talk to you. People will  talk about you. People will  talk around you. Consider this: Those who will tell it to you, may tell it about you. Not all people are what they seem. Nice, sweet, kind liers–I roomed with one in college–so sweet and innocent looking and very smart too–a manipulative genius. She was good at math too.

Taking financial advantage of men–maxing out their credit cards, using their bodies. Smile to your face, but stab you in the back. Some even stab you in the face. The audacity of them. Who do they think they are– superwoman or superman. Either way, it doesn’t matter. Know who you are; what you stand for; don’t get on the drama train; and when you see crazy coming, cross the street.

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