Be that madman. Before the story ends. The opposite of deewangi (madness) is not sanity. It is mediocrity. Go be wonderfully, recklessly, beautifully insane.
There was a madman once. And he tried loving with his whole chest.
Yes. He knows.
There is a phrase in Urdu and Hindi that stops you mid-scroll. It hangs in the air like the last note of a forgotten song:
There was a madman once.
The opposite of being a deewana isn't being smart. The opposite is being hollow. I am not asking you to abandon logic. I am asking you to stop worshiping it.
While we sit in our safe, air-conditioned rooms feeling nothing , the deewana was out there, drenched, heartbroken, and utterly, terrifyingly alive. The word is a double-edged sword. In one breath, it means lover . In the next, it means lunatic .
They will say: "Ek deewana tha. Aur usne dil laga ke dekha."