Normal Doesn't Exist

You have most likely heard the phrase "Normal is boring" once or twice in your lifetime. I'd be willing to bet, however, that you've never heard anyone say normal doesn't exist. I'm about to tell you just that.

I want to begin by saying that I by no means believe that normal doesn't exist. There are things in people's everyday lives that are normal like going to work in the morning and stuff like that. I'm not saying that some events in our lives aren't normal for a particular person's life, but when you look at the world as a whole, normal doesn't exist.

Let's start with one single school building. You can observe the people in the building from the outside. You can watch them going to and from their classes, and talking to their friends, concluding that they're your normal, run of the mill human beings. They're not though.

Now let's take a random person (now to be known as Stacy). Looking from an outside view, Stacy is a happy person, has lots of friends, has a pretty good family and goes to church once or twice a month. Pretty normal, right? Well let's look a bit closer. You get to know Stacy a bit more. Turns out she's going through a stressful life, nothing too big but still awful at times. She has family problems and doesn't really enjoy church but is told to go anyway. So, a little less normal but still on the close to normal side. Let's go even deeper. Stacy will come home from a long day and get into yet another fight with her family. She doesn't enjoy school but misses it on breaks because it gets her out of a secluded life at home. She feels forced to believe in something in a specific way when she doesn't believe in it in that way. Fighting is in her everyday life and she just wants it to go away. She doesn't know what to do about it anymore.

  No one's life is normal in the grand scheme of things. And if it was, life would be boring. Not one of us go through the same exact set of circumstances in life and when you think about it, what people consider normal is just the stuff people choose to show the world.

 The bottom line is that things may seem normal on the surface, but if you don't take that step to get to know a person on a deep level you will only see that fog of normalness. Normal is the smokescreen people put up to hide their problems so all people see is a simple everyday happy life. So yes, I admit normal exists, but not as a real thing. Normal exists because people are afraid to show their true-life story. Once you establish a relationship with a person you begin to see they aren't normal, and they're even better real than hiding under the fog. We all are different and unique, and when we learn to embrace that fact, normal truly will not exist.