Emily Dickinson, 620: Much Madness is divinest Sense

     I have been called crazy a few times (mostly by my parents or friends that knew the person I was when I was younger) for my developing thoughts and opinions.  I think at times they have thought my opinions to be "straightaway dangerous" and wanted to "handle me with a Chain."  But as Dickinson points out, "Much Madness is divinest Sense - / To a discerning Eye -" As we grow up, that's what we learn to do, to develop a discerning eye.  We learn to not instantly assent or deny new ways of thinking, but to wrestle with them in a state of indecisiveness for a while.  We learn to become okay with not having all the answers.  This is what Dickinson, Whitman, and many other poets and authors encourage--be comfortable with being uncomfortable.  This is certainly something I have learned in my time at college.  But I have also learned not to stop trying to understand things better, even if it is easier to give up and never form an opinion.