It has been said that the definition of insanity is “doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results”. I understand the sentiment behind the saying, but it’s wrong.I entered the building on a bet. I was strapped for cash and didn’t buy into the old legends of the hotel to begin with, so fifty bucks was more than enough to get me do it. It was simple. Just reach the top floor, the 45th floor, shine my flashlight from a window.The hotel was ADJECTIVE and ADJECTIVE , including the NOUN, so that meant hiking up the NOUN. So up the SAME NOUN I went. As I reached each platform, I noted the old brass NOUN displaying the floor numbers. 15, 16, 17, 18. I felt a little ADJECTIVE as I crept higher, but so far, no PLURAL NOUN , no PLURAL NOUN , no PLURAL NOUN . Piece of FOOD . I can’t tell you how ADJECTIVE I was as I entered that last stretch of numbers. I ADJECTIVE counted them aloud at each platform. 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 44. I stopped and looked back down the SAME NOUN AS BEFORE . I must have miscounted, so I continued up. 44. One more flight. 44. And then down ten flights. 44. Fifteen flights. 44.And so it’s been for as long as I can remember. So really, insanity isn’t doing something repeatedly and expecting different results. It’s knowing that the results will never ever change; that each door leads to the same staircase, to the same number. It’s realizing you no longer VERB . It’s not knowing whether you’ve been running for TIME or TIME or TIME . It’s when the VERB ENDING IN ING slowly turns into VERB ENDING IN ING .
