Nov 08 2008
Living Normal
What is normal? By strict definition it means average, but what each culture considers average can vary widely; even within a culture many variances from the norm can be acceptable as average.
Personally, I have never had much success being “normal,” but for the most part normalcy isn’t something I seek for myself. Psychologically, I like my unique perspective on the world; physiologically I have no complaints that I rarely get sick or feel physical pain; emotionally I am pleased to know my feelings are my own and cannot be much affected by external events.
The truth of it is, few individuals are “normal.” We mostly do what we must to keep our societies running as smoothly as possible, making small concessions of ourselves for the greater good. “Normal” is simply a word, an ideal against which we measure our deviations for better or worse.
