Weird Person

It baffles me what is within the psych of the mentally disturbed and disabled. To the point that it intrigues me. I mean, what can these people be possibly thinking in their minds? Its interesting to know what the thoughts within a mind of someone belonging to this category. What could they be thinking? Is that really the power (or the lack of it), to be able to totally convince someone of something that is totally beyond reality or possibility? Or maybe everyone just has a bunch of "weird" neurons in their brain, just that there is enough to overcome them? Perhaps thats why everyone has bouts of weirdness now and then.

Don't get me wrong. I cannot say that I ridicule them. Thats because I'm not in their shoes. But yet its hard to suppress a giggle sometimes. Just today while we were out selling tickets, there were 2 uncles that we approached to purchase tickets. What started was a really weird lecture cum information session.

One of them claimed to be the one that "包" all the orphanages in Singapore. He claimed that there was only one. The kids were all abandoned children and the doctors of Singapore would give them to him. There, the kids had access to books relating to Engineering, Medicine and other pretty high level stuff. The kids were given $30 (if I remembered correctly) each weekend to buy McDonald's. When asked what was the name of his orphanage, he couldn't answer, asking us to call the doctors and inquire about "2 brothers", giving his surname as 王. He didn't know what the name was, or where it was (he just said Singapore), saying he lets others manage it so he doesn't care about the details.

At this point we were convinced that he was.. well.. off..

Then he started talking about stuff regarding the underworld, like they eat what we eat, and wear clothes like what we wear. "Civilian" he said. He claimed to have kopitiams and other shopping centers down below as well, and he was running them. Oh, he also said that 十八盛地狱 was also untrue. You could say he's like a Chinese Aethist. Haha..

There was much more that he said, while happily smoking just beside our booth, where the smoke pretty much choked out Si Min and the talking distracted us so much we had to call each other to get away from him. That worked.. for awhile. Fortunately he left later. I'm not too sure how long he talked for, but it felt like an hour at least. Oh well..

Sometimes you can tell when people are weird. But these 2 really looked alright. Looking back on today's incident, I wonder what can cause people to think like that. I'm no psychologist, but it really intrigued me today. Can there ever be a cure? But what is this compelling mental force that convinces people to be not what they truly are?

Maybe psychologists know. I certainly don't. Haha..