Being Normal

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"She is wisest who knows she doesn't know"
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"Normality" is a misused word...

Here's an example. This is a true story. I know a family who have 4 kids. One of those kids was born with Down's Syndrome. Does that mean that 3 were normal, and 1 wasn't?

They are all now fully grown. 3 of them lead ordinary lives. 1 of them is a criminal who has served prison time for Assault & Battery, Theft & Vandalism. He is not the one who was born with the mental illness.

Who's not "normal" now?

"Be Afraid - the world needs more fraids!"

Normal is a very broad term. The normal Decius may have been referring to was the ignoranceand immorality of the general masses. Normalcy scares me...

"How can we be just in a world without mercy and merciful in a world without justice?"

You're normal or becoming normal and you don't even know it. Normal is when you in any way create a facade to represent you in the "Real" world. A majority of other people do the same thing, and the end result is ironically a "Real" world with nothing but "Fake" people.

Which, actually, does represent the "Real" world.

Odd eh?

And when you sit and meditate and think about whether you are one of these people or not, it's rarely possible to tell because it's so deep rooted and has been conditioned in you at such an early age, that the actual concept of the "real" you sort of escapes the conscious mind.

More interestingly, how the hell does a relationship work in this world then? Do people fall in love with each others' facades? Is that why there are so many broken families and why people move from partner to partner?

I'll venture to say that a good way of knowing whether you are "normal" or already somewhat "normal" is to judge whether you hope in a romantic way (ie, daring and risky and idealistic) or if you hope in a controlled and unemotional way (realistic, logical, pessimistic). Therefore, presumably, the younger you are the less "normal" and the more unique you are...

"Hating everyone protects me from elitism."

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Do people fall in love with each others' facades?

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"I am Akba-Atatdia"

People refer normal to how most people are like, or how the majority of people are. I think that when we first meet someone, we try to decipher them and their interests, and then pretend to be interested so you have something to talk about, so in a way we're being fake. If you don't have anything to connect with at first, then usually you don't stand a chance and thats the end of it. But since you faked your way at first, and theres a second chance to associate with the other person again, the more you spend time with the other person, the more your "true" self comes out, and by then, it doesn't matter that you wern't interested in chess or cars, what matters is that now you have a friend who even though very different from you, now can appreciate you for who you really are.

"Crap. I lost my watch, now I'm lost in time."