Today I watched my nephew help my aunt plant flowers! In the process of “helping” my nephew managed to hang from the dog run, relocate all the flower pots, and throw bread into the lake to feed the fish! My aunt made a statement about him potentially having ADHD! It made me wonder why we consider a child running around “abnormal”. In an evolutionary context all behaviors and thought processes exist because they have been beneficial to gene progression. No matter how out there to cultural expectations all abnormalities have been selected for in some fashion. But the bigger issue here is that my aunt is not the first person to make such a statement. What gets to me is the idea that staying focused on one subject at a time is considered normal behavior. But under what conditions is the idea of staying focused necessary? With the exception of not losing yourself on the pursuit of dancing with Ellen DeGeneres or developing any long term endeavour, which in all honesty requires great faith in being granted the time each day leading up, why is ADHD bad? People often ask me if I have ADHD. Not to come off as arrogant, but the reason for this tends to result from the fact I forget that people don’t necessarily see where I’m coming from all the time, so I step back and try to explain why I have various perceptions, which in turn tends to lose the person I’m conversing with on top of the fact that the attention span time frame has been blown! I think the idea of always wanting to do something. Always wanting to think about something different. Always wanting to ask a question. I think these things are very undervalued in our culture. I think people like the feeling of being content. They enjoy not being restless. In my opinion the problem with calm is that things begin to settle. When things settle turbulence doesn’t mix anything up. I’ve come to think about life like a puddle of mud! I often ponder that if I was sittin in a puddle of mud, and in reality we really are, it would be so much more fun surfing waves than floating around. At the very least maybe one of the waves would throw me out of the puddle, allowing me to explore a whole new world. Think about where the world would be if chaos didn’t exist. Without chaos there would be no Internet, no poke walkers, no Twilight! Without chaos, without entropy, without disorder there would be no need for us to enjoy a cheese sandwich. Without disruption there would never of been a need or a mechanism for proteins to develop. Thus the point I’m getting at is that I believe we all should make it a point to become agents of chaos and disorder. Not in the sense that results in physical harm, but in the sense that promotes the idea that when we start taking life serious, we forget to witness a two headed snake! We miss out on snail sex. We become blinded to the idea of love and the intricacies of romance. We lose the magic and wonder of what oxygen exchange and Oxytocin are all about. I hope you all go outside and sport a clown nose! Be a little less professional. Act a little more like a singing banana!