There is a great benefit to play by the rules and hold yourself within the politically correct. The box of normality.
But there is also a price to pay to stay within those limits. Often that price can be very high.
There is often the question in the air why some people just can’t seem to be normal. I have thought about that too, why I can’t seem to be like everyone else, or why some other people seem to have the need to be different.
A while ago I started thinking about this from a new perspective; This question is asked from the point of the many. And all the normal people are per definition the bigger group that often gets to set the standards of what that normal is. But instead of asking why some people just don’t seem to be able to be normal, maybe you could ask the reverse, why do you have the need to be normal? Why do you want to be like everyone else?
It is easy to think about different people like they are slightly crazy or strange in that they don’t seem to be able to stay within what is considered normal behaviour but in this strange world we live in, isn’t it even more strange that so many can do just that?
Like I said, there is a price to pay for being normal, and whenever I have tried in order to reap the benefits of it, it more or less drives me insane (or more insane depending on how you like to see it). I have started to realize that being normal is not up to me, and trying to would be like fighting gravity.
Maybe it rather is so that a minority of all the people in this world just don’t seem to be able to hide the pain and suffering. Or maybe they are willing to live in that pain because the price of closing up is to high? Maybe it is the “normal” people who has an abnormal ability to suppress that pain deep inside them and just look the other way?
However things are, two questions are important to keep in mind: Do you really have a choice to be normal or different, and what exactly is normal anyway?
