These Joes And Janes

The only normal people are the ones you don't know very well ~ Alfred Adler

It’s funny when people say, I wish my life was normal. It’s funny because most people’s lives aren’t really normal. When people think of normal, they think of someone who was raised by two parents, went to school, grew up and now has a job so that they can feed their family. That is technically something what normal is more or less. Just really depending where your life is at that stage of normal.

In life, you cannot have a normal life, because normalcy is just a perception. There is nothing typical or usual about people’s lives. People's lives are either something strange, bad, good, or just down right extraordinary. People don’t have normal lives. Yes, there might be something similar to normality, but when you really compare it, there is nothing normal.

Additionally, since normality is based on perception, what seems normal to you might seem strange or different to someone. One could believe that doing back flips every day, from an acrobatic family is normal, but for others would seem strange. When people talk about normal people they usually aren’t that normal themselves, and they might be looking at you hoping that they were normal as you.

Despite, people seeming to crave normality, it's not really something to long for several reasons. One, if you had a “normal” life, it would be boring. Secondly, “normal” lives don’t exist. Thirdly, there are still problems in a normal life even if they are “normal problems”. Also, wishing is just wishful thinking. Making the best of your “not normal” life is better then doing nothing about it.

Also, if you long for a normal life, you won’t ever do anything about your life, and what you want is probably not normal, but something else. Mayhap it be, routine, in your life or something else to make you feel "normal".

Normal lives, don't exist, and normal lives aren't really what people want. It's a broad statement when people say they want a normal life. Human beings have a habit for longing for things they do not have. However, rarely do people know what they want. In general, if you want something bad enough, you have to do something instead of longing for it. In wanting a normal life, it may really just be a longing for something of an aspect of a normal life, but not really the whole normal package. It’s better to dissect your feelings and ask why you would want something, because you just be surprised in what you really want.

 For sometimes, the things that we want from something, is sometimes just a part. A part so small of that thing we seemly want, that it might as well be the very opposite that we supposedly desire.