Insanity, Odd or Normal?

I was looking for more definitions of insanity the other night when I noticed that the definition "extreme folly; senselessness; foolhardiness" kept cropping up. This definition struck me as odd, as I felt that I, along with most people fit this definition. I quickly let this thought drift to the back of my mind, yet I have found that throughout the weekend it has continued to return itself to my awareness, and it has brought to my attention the possibility that perhaps the cliché "that everyone is a little insane," really is not that absurd. After all, I have been known to act senselessly quite often. At average I go to sleep at two in the morning, and get up at five for school, and incase you have not noticed, this is being written at 1:21 am, why? because that is when I prefer to do my writing. Does my preference to write so late at night make me insane, by that definition one would think so, but personally I disagree, for several reasons. First, I find it far easier to concentrate at write when it is quiet, a state my house really is never in unless everyone is asleep. One other strong contributor is that once it gets late my mind starts to slow down, allowing me to focus better on the task at hand, rather than having the other parts of my brain wandering off and distracting me. If we lived by this definition of insanity I could be shipped off to the loony bin any day now, but alas I escape my proper sentence. Now perhaps it is just me that has avoided my impending doom, but as far as I can see I think most have landed in the same position. I currently have a friend, I am not kidding, who each night looks outside and sees a little girl in a white dress swinging on their swing. Now whether we decide the little girl is real and she herself is crazy for enjoying swinging in the pitch black darkness, or she does not exist and it is my friend that is crazy I feel the principle still applies. After all my friend is not crazy, at least in my opinion she is not as she seems for the most part fairly normal. Now if the little girl is real, then can we really pass her off as insane simply because she finds it right to swing in cold darkness? Perhaps… but perhaps not. In my opinion everyone is a little crazy, but what separates true insane from average abnormality is persistent displaying of craziness, such as complete and utter disregard for ones safety, and that the truly normal, are perhaps close to insanity than the abnormal majority.