Normal

I think the word "normal" is missused. "Normal" means something different to everyone. Everyone has their own "normal". It is "normal" for me to brush and floss my teeth twice a day. Yet somehow "normal" has this obscure negative connotation. Like I'm spposed to think that if I think you are "normal", I think you are boring, insignificant. And I don't like you.

But that's not true.

I don't think brushing my teeth is a bad thing, it's not insignificant and I actually enjoy the simple task, especially if I have my favourite toothpaste.

So why are "normal" actions different from "normal" people? NOBODY IS NORMAL. People use this blanket term to cover up everyone who is DIFFERENT than themselves. Some people wake up and don't brush their teeth, I wake up and do. That's a choice person x and I have chosen to make. I don't hate person x because they don't brush their teeth. (I just think they are smelly because morning breath permeates even the strongest of breath mints).

I know that people think pretty people are "normal". If you spend time on your appearance then you must have no substance underneath your pretty eye make-up on your pretty eyes. LIES

I wish I could ERASE the word normal from everyone's vocabulary. I think everybody is complicated and I believe that normal has become an insult. Which it shouldn't be.

You are not being NORMAL by imitating someone's choices. You are adopting their NORMS. Things that are NORMAL to them. THIS DOES NOT MAKE YOU NORMAL. Normal is not something you can achieve, or be insulted with.

Nobody is normal. So stop insulting people with nothing. Go ahead and disagree with their NORMS, but don't say you don't like them because they are normal. That is such a broad statement. Suddenly everyone who is disliked by another is labelled as NORMAL or NOT NORMAL. When we are really talking about NORMS.

Does this make sense?

People need to be more specific. "He's too... normal" is a ridiculous thing to say. Maybe he is average. Maybe you do not appreciate the things that are normal to him. This does not make him normal. It just doesn't. Normal doesn't mean boring. Normal doesn't mean average. Normal is the composition of norms orginal to each indivudual. Calling someone normal is insulting their entire being. I don't beleive you truly hate anyone to the point where you can not find any good in them.

Now say there is a group of people who have similar NORMS. Or, some frogs. It is normal for frogs to... eat flies. But a non-fly-eating frog thinks all the fly-eating frogs are "too normal". Too stereotypically froggy. I will sleep better at night if the non-fly-eating frog would skip the vague comment about normality and dive straight in to the fact that she does not agree with frog norms, what is normal to those fly-eating frogs.

Normality is something personal that is comprised of your norms. People with similar norms tend to stick together. If you do not agree or appreciate someone's norms, whether it be fly-eating or nose-picking, that is your choice. But that does not make them NORMAL. You can think people are boring and no fun and even emotionally draining because they are so dull. But this does not make those people NORMAL to one another, unless they have similar norms.

Uhmm... long story short. Actions create norms which gives birth to normality in a person's life. Routine exercises in humanity that are common to an individual are NORMAL to said individual. That person is NOT "normal". And neither are you.