Thread: Normal

Normal is what most people think they're not, but that everybody else is. I've realised that the only people I consider normal are the ones I don't really know all that well. Because a "normal" person doesn't stand out, blends in with the mass, and has no personality. Yet, oddly enough, most people want to seem normal, do their best so that nobody would consider them abnormal. This probably has to do with a human's desire to be a part of a community, and communities are known to exclude the abnormal ones. At the same time they are "wanting to raise their freak flag higher and higher". They wish to do nothing that would give their co-workers something to gossip about, but in their privacy, they are proud of that weirdly shaped scar, chain of weird thoughts, or whatever the else they think makes them so "weird". I'm certain I know more people who would describe themselves rather with "weird" than "normal". Because in the end, being weird makes you somehow special and it makes you stand out. Masses of people watch tv shows like Freaks & Geeks and identify with the tv freaks, even though the slight unpopularity they experienced in school would be more normal than popularity.

Normal means average, medium, the norm. The mass is supposedly made of normal people, but when you look closer, do they still look so normal?

Thus, normal people don't have a personality that would stand out, and that is preferable within certain social groups, such as, your workplace, or a school where the bully or the mean teacher picks you as their main target to ridicule. When you blend in with the crowd (wall), don't say anything out of the ordinary, you are socially safe. That is the day mode of a (normal) person.

When the evening comes, the freaks within the everyday people crawl out. Suddenly all the women want to look the most stunning, most gorgeous. All the men want to be the most charming one. So we enter a new scene, the night life, where it is preferable to stand out: that is how potential mates and allies locate you. Like exotic birds, the ones with the loudest noise and the most colourful appearance get the most attention. I think this has to do also with the fact that most people secretly enjoy attention, especially the kind that salutes their "specialness". Everybody wants to be the funniest, the wittiest, the smartest, the most attractive, the one everyone will remember. That is the night mode of a (normal) person.

Everybody is a piece of the big puzzle that is the human community. Everybody wishes to seem perfectly rational and normal by behaviour, but still, most people secretly wish they had a talent or a trait that would stand out and make them worshipped superstars - in which the two opposites blend in perfectly: normal enough to be taken seriously, but special enough to be remembered long after death. Like ying/yang, we want to be a perfect blend of both; to have the best traits of both worlds.

So it's come to this, in the end, everybody IS their beautiful and unique snowflake, but sadly, in that pre-winter night when nobody gets to ever even recocnize their beauty before they've molten away. And it is true, that "we are all singing, all dancing crap of the world". We still are all originated from the same pile of crap, we are all organic waste of the Earth. But let's not get too philosophical, that always ends badly: let's get wasted instead!

Heh, thanks Glad someone(/bodies) read this thing, it's been here for ages without any comments on it.