Some of us have a narrow perspective of normal, our need for control and understanding might place our view of normal into a little box, and when we meet people who do not fit into our defined box, our instincts kick in, we don’t approve of what we see. We do not like different. The disdain we send out affect others, ourselves. By creating a harsh, overstated, rigid view of normal, we also create a harsh rigid environment, one that cracks open when confronted with a very definite deviation.
Judgement not only extends to others, but also to ourselves, sometimes, often times, we find within our soul a need to be other people’s normal, for whatever reason, in response to whatever cultural beliefs. In being other’s normal, we stop being ourselves, we hinder our own up- dance to imagination, and belief.
So, for today….let’s redfine normal, let’s be ourselves. Give it a try.
“If you need to feel normal, you could look at it this way; You’re a normal what-ever-you-are. I’d say you’re the best what-ever-you-are, but then there’s always room for improvement, right?
(Charles De Lint… The Painted Boy)
Tilly Evan Jones 