Monday, January 6, 2014

Normal?

What is normal? The average, the usual, a conformity? People seem so fixed on being normal, or not being normal, without even knowing what it is. This is because 'normal' is an unsteady title, it's constantly changing. Many people now think that if you appear to them their definition of normal you aren't being yourself and maybe unhappy or unconvertible with yourself. While this may be true on some if not many occasions there is a very big flaw to this thought. The flaw is that your normal is the same as theirs. Normal isn't a thing that we can decide on once and expect it to stay the same, by our expectations of people to not be normal this then becomes the new normal. In the end people will begin to copy as they always do and this new normal will become the normal until someone goes searching for another one.

The reason we concern ourselves with the concept of what is normal is because we are so obsessed with knowing who we are, and that's good. We should want to know who we really are but we also want to know other people and we want these other people to like us. So we care about normal, we want to know if we are like other people, we want to know if we'll be excepted by the group or just who we are in the first place.  If we didn't care who we were we wouldn't care about normal. And while that's great and amazing it is a confusing puzzle in the game of life just waiting to be solved. Though it's a puzzle that never can be solved.

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