"I simply have a penchant for intelligent conversation. Yesssss.."

For those of you who've never watched Beast Wars, or simply can't remember which episode that line is from, it was a response to the question "Why do you keep talking to yourself?" I bring this up because it's one of my three standard answers when people ask me that question, the other two being 1)to shut up and stop doing it and 2)tell the truth, ie that I'm simply thinking out loud. Y' see, I happen to have a mind that races around from one subject to another really quickly, and getting it to focus on something isn't always easy. To counter that, I usually talk it out, going through the thought processes verbally so I can focus on what I want to be doing, which gives people the impression that I'm talking to myself (which, in this case, I am).

Of course, sometimes I'm simply just making a snide comment to no-one in particular with the invitation for someone else to comment on my comment, and it doesn't help that I usually end up talking while looking at whatever it is I happen to be doing at the time (multi-tasking at it's finest).

Talking to myself, of course, tends to freak people out since they can't handle someone who just won't shut up if he doesn't feel like it. These are the people who would *really* be in trouble if they knew what goes on in between my ears, because I tend to hold conferences in there as opposed to simple conversations. Here's a little taste of what I mean, which happened a while back when I was thinking about this subject:

Me: Is it *really* such a bad thing to keep talking to yourself? I mean, people keep asking me why I keep talking to myself, but it's not like I'm crazy or anything, right?
Me2: Why are you still so sensitive about what people think about you? It's not like you do that all the time anyway...
Me: But it freaks people out lah dey..
Me2: You freak people out anyway -_-"
Me3: Stop doing it lor
Me: Well, yeah, but it's almost a reflex now-
Me4: Is anyone else wondering why exactly we're talking to ourselves like this?
Me3: Well yeah, but I don't think you can be crazy if you know you're crazy or doing "abnormal" stuff.
Me: But what if we *are* crazy, but just don't know it? Are there like, different kinds of crazy?
Me2: Well, if there weren't I'd say we wouldn't need to have therapists and mental institutions, would we?
Me3: This conversation's getting mighty crowded, don't you guys think..?
Me4: At this rate we might as well start giving us names -_-"
Me2: Oo, oo! I wanna be Me2-D2!
Me3: Then I call Me-3PO!
Me4: What about me?
Me: Which me?
Me2D2: That me.
Me4: Me me! It's not exactly fair that those two get to ripoff names like that when there aren't many names with numbers in them..
Me-3PO: We're arguing about fair use of names when we're all the same person?
Me2-D2: If we're all the same person but have different opinions, are we still the same person?
Me4: We're all living in the same head, right?
Me-3PO: So do schizos and people with split personalities.
Me5: You guys are *all* crazy!
Me-3PO: This, coming from the guy arguing with himself in his own head?
Me: Okay, this is SO going in the blog...

For the record, I/we am/are of the opinion that everyone's a little crazy, in our own little way, which is why "normal" is such an oxymoron when you think about it.

Are we an "I", or "we"? If I argue with myself, are we arguing or am I arguing? Blargh...K, shutting up now..

Anyway, tune in next time, for more forays into the Chaotic Realm! matte mitte neh, minna-san~