Is 'making sense' overrated?

"That makes sense"

Do you ever feel like making sense is overrated? I mean if everything made sense then the world would be a little too perfect, wouldn't it? And perhaps that extent of perfection is in itself faulty? Maybe making sense doesn't make any sense.

Often we decide for ourselves what does and doesn't make sense. This, of course, is based on our biases. So to me, maths makes no sense at all while writing makes complete sense. I've deemed myself incapable of understanding maths and on the other hand, what comes easy to me, which is writing, is second nature.

'Making sense' of things

It is simply impossible not to create these biases, and it's not necessarily bad to have them, but we usually end up misusing them. "It doesn't make sense" is sort of an easy way out, isn't it? But when things are inescapable we use these magic words and voila! You've procrastinated without intentionally procrastinating. Rather, we can choose to try and 'make sense' of what 'Doesn't make sense', and by doing so we give ourselves a chance to succeed. But then again to make sense of something you may have to abandon the bracket of 'sense' altogether. Putting a perspective-based idea in a box is never going to end well because you can never find a box fitting something so abstract. Maybe it is so that the 'sense' that we talk about isn't the one we should be in pursuit of at all.

So clearly sense is a relative word, which can mean different things to different people. But often we don't acknowledge how we are constantly pursuing sense, while not knowing what it means to us. There are a lot of social standards of what 'sensibility' looks like, and often we fall prey to these general ideas that we may or may not agree with. Sensibility is not completely absent in the world, but very few people make sense of things for themselves rather than following the next person blindly.

Originality

Why is nonsense a word used to ridicule people? Anything that is different never makes any sense to us, does it? Well, it's quite possible that someone's narrative of sense is different from the person judging them, and that's completely fine.

I'm sure everyone has experienced an instance where they just felt like their way, or their thoughts made no sense compared to the people they know. I can say that this has happened to me quite a few times.

Sometimes not making sense to others can make you doubt yourself and can feel quite lonely. We often try to make up for it by, like I said before, blindly following the next person. But, however difficult it might be to take a stand against social convention, it's more than needed to preserve any originality. Imagine, if you will

1 + 1 = 2 is a fact known to most, and it makes sense. But while maths is factual we humans aren't. So coming back to our example, if one person makes sense of their life by saying 1 + 1 = 2, and one after the other people keep blindly following this reality of sense, everyone has now ended up as 2, without knowing how they got there. They skipped 1 + 1 entirely, which represents the building blocks of a unique way of 'making sense' and now everyone is the same.

Conclusion

Originality is to dare to not make sense, and the only person who you are entitled to make sense to is yourself. So judgment is inescapable, but unoriginality isn't.

Sometimes it's not your voice that is faint, but it's the people listening who are deaf. And so I think, always making sense to others is overrated, but making sense of things for yourself, though it requires a little more effort than 'copy-paste', is the definition of originality.