The world is absurd. Ugly absurd.
To repair ugly absurdity, you can’t just be normal. You need an alternative absurdity. A beautiful absurdity.
We call it “divine madness.”
Divine madness means dancing like a fool at your friend's wedding because you love him so much.
Divine madness means walking out of a busy office where everybody needs you on Friday afternoon so you can light Shabbat candles on time.
Divine madness means driving back and forth every day to take your kid to a Jewish school even though there's a good public school just down the street.
It means acting the clown on Purim, visiting the sick, the elderly, and the confined instead of going to work or to school that day.
Yes, it's crazy. But, hey, did you really think normal people are going to save the world?
Normal mode in our world is to operate within our instinctive reasoning to enhance our individual status.
It is absurd to think we can rise above our nature to reach the status of G_d. To reason with love, mercy, kindness, giving and compassion for others. Aim to enhance others.
It is even more absurd and perhaps arrogant to desire to reach G_d's status!
It is absurd to know that this is what brings contentment to G_d.
It is utterly absurd to imagine that we will change our nature.
Purim celebrates the joy of uniting with G_d when all our qualities align with His.