Here's a new African proverb:

Sometimes you have to be light when things are heavy duty.


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I started this thread because I was struck by the quote attributed to Mark Twain that I had read on a political blog this evening.
My sense is that Mark Twain meant that in order to succeed in business {and in the rest of society?}, he {and other folks} had to act in ways that society considered "normal".

I guess what I was trying to get at was that I think it's too bad that society doesn't have a wider range of normalcy. And it's too bad that society can't accept individuals who think, and talk, and dress, and act, {and look in the multiple layers of that word} different than what society considers to be the right way to think, talk, dress, act, and look.

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I mean/meant no disrespect to folks who are struggling with conditions of mental illness.