What Is Your Inner Voice Saying To You?

And how can you learn to control the narrative?

There’s something about those people who walk down the street talking to themselves that makes you want to get away from them no? It’s as if we’re afraid that their insanity is infectious. It doesn’t matter if they’re dressed in a suit or rags, young or old, male or female, talking to yourself in public is the gold standard of crazy behaviour.

The funny thing is, the only difference between them (the freaks) and us (the normals) is the fact that we do the talking inside our heads. Just imagine if everyone could hear the voice inside your head. If every stray thought or urge, every memory of an embarrassing moment from years ago, every insecurity about how other people see you, were freed from the confines of your head. Would anybody think you were sane?

The line between sanity and madness, in this case at least, is simply whether you choose to be insane discreetly or not. These people are doing the same thing as the rest of us, they’re just doing it in a way which is more annoying. Nobody wants to listen to the ravings of other people’s minds, it’s bad enough that we’re stuck listening to the ravings of our own.

But in a way, maybe the people who say it all out loud have the right idea. By putting their inner madness out…