There is no great genius without a mixture of madness!

~ Aristotle ~

Me with a scary dog so similar to our dog... same colouring.

I jokingly say that I must have been born an undiscovered genius then.  Inside of me there is definitely enough madness mixed with a lot of desire to learn.   I'm not scared around terrifying dogs anymore like I used to be.  That was a mad fear. 

That fear was a different kind of madness though.   The kind Aristotle speaks of in this quote where there is a mix of madness and genius.  These are relative even though they seem opposites. 

If madness was one end of a piece of string and genius was the other end of the same string and the string is drawn out into a straight line then they are opposite ends, but what happens when you create a circle with this string?  Those two are right next to each other. 

That's how it happens.

Images @ Eminpee Fotography