Amazing Women Rock - Here's To The Crazy Ones, Let's Celebrate And Emulate

Here's To The Crazy Ones, Let's Celebrate And Emulate

There's a lot to be said for not fitting in.

And an old one-minute Apple commercial featuring black and white video footage of people who broke the mold really says it all.

It includes (in order of appearance) Albert Einstein, Bob Dylan, Martin Luther King, Jr., Richard Branson, John Lennon, R. Buckminster Fuller, Thomas Edison, Muhammad Ali, Ted Turner, Maria Callas, Mahatma Gandhi, Amelia Earhart, Alfred Hitchcock, Martha Graham, Jim Henson (with Kermit the Frog), Frank Lloyd Wright, and Picasso.

There aren't as many women in the video as there should be, but the commercial ends with a young girl opening her closed eyes, as if to see the possibilities before her.

I believe that when more young girls are encouraged to open their eyes to possibility and to pursue their dreams, however crazy those dreams may sound, the world will be a much better place to be.

Here's to Being a Crazy One

I don’t fit in. And while that can be a lonely place at times, there’s lots to be relished about being a rebel.

I wear purple suede boots, black lace stockings, a short jean skirt, the jean jacket I embroidered and wore with such pride when I was 13 (it doesn’t matter that it’s literally falling apart at the seams now). I top it all off with a big, fat, fluffy, black boa, and I feel totally at ease.

I sport pink Crocs and Girl About Town fuscia lipstick. I leave my hair naturally silver, and line my eyes with blue and green.

I'm direct and opinionated; people expect it of me.

I wear jeans to work.

I believe eyeglasses are fashion accessories so I have funky ones at 53, and people ask me where I got them, not: "What are doing? Act your age!"

I believe in bling – the blingier the better. I also believe in simple abundance.

I do what I want, when I want, where I want (within reason), with whomever I like, if they want to join in, and if they don’t, so be it, I do it anyway.

I don’t have to answer to anyone, but the universe and my own conscience.

I'm joyful, tearful, happy, sad, lonely, and connected. Or not.

I cry in movies, and on planes, and I don’t care who stares.

I seek inner peace amidst the chaos. I surrender defiantly.

I don’t expect ever to be famous, like the people in the Apple commercial above, but I would like to change the world, for the better, in whatever small way I can.

I aspire to be crazy. I'm a misfit, a rebel, a troublemaker, a round peg in a square hole.

I want to celebrate and emulate the craziness of the crazies, in tribute to the wonderful magic they/we/you bring to the world.

Because the people who are crazy enough to think

they can change the world, are the ones who do.

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written by Shereen Shabnam, March 18, 2009

Honey...we love every bit about you - each and every bit that you have mentioned above. I look forward to our monthly jaunts at the Trade Club for this very reason. And I dont know anyone who looks as fabulous in pink as you do - did I tell you I love rebels and trouble makers. They rule the world!

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written by Susan Macaulay, March 18, 2009

I love you too Shereen! And thanks for the cool photo of me and my Crocs at the Sevens last year - see how much I've used it lol. I love the rebellious and troublemaking sides of myself and others. But I also love the parts that are conformist and peacemaking - isn't it wonderful that we are all so multi-dimensional? Makes life interesting