Years ago my brother was posted in a remote town of Maharashtra, India. My mum and I went to visit him and my mother, like any mother, cleaned his unkempt room. My brother was furious. There is a method in my madness here. I know where each thing is lying. That was not true of course but he said that.

The quote is by, guess what, Shakespeare. There are more than 800 phrases by him which we use everyday but don’t know that we are quoting him. Well, this particular one is interesting because we all do have our own system of keeping things or working in a particular manner. In other words, our own whims and fancies. See? Shakespeare again.

If somebody disturbs that pattern, we get rattled and sometimes so upset that it leads to big arguments. We like to fold our clothes a certain way, we arrange our stationary in a particular manner. Sometimes the behaviour can be compulsive and neurotic also. I am not going to delve into a Freudian explanation of all that. But one thing is sure. All of us, to some degree or other, have these habits. They give us a sort of discipline and a degree of control. When that control is taken away, we feel lost and irritated.

We may say we have a method in our madness but the fact is there is a madness and we enjoy that. Isn’t it?

So enjoy your madness

So be it!!!