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Aspiring for normalcy?
11 years ago
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"Normal" is one of those words i very rarely use, mainly because i don't think it exists, if you ask me "Normal" is the (false) idea that most people are somehow less .. weird, or have more mainstream tastes or views.
Of course not everyone considers that the definition of normal either, thats part of the problem, there are a number of possible definitions.
While i'm not a fan of the basic idea of normal in general, there are is a group of people out there that i really don't seem to understand. The ones who aspire for something called "The Norm" now, the exact definition of "the norm" changes at least slightly every decade or so, but in broad terms it encompases:
goto school, get an average job, get married, have kids, work for most of your life, retire, ...die..
While it seems that "the norm" is also slowly becoming broader in definition, there are quite a few people who still aspire to that definition even if they don't succeed in ever attaining it.
But, why? i mean, if thats really what you want, more power to you, but why do you want it?
You only live once, so why not aspire to change the world? aspire to leave your mark? ..aspire to make a big difference in history? what if you're the one that finally does that thing that no one else has done before? "The norm" seems rather like aspiring to mediocrity when you are able to do so much more.
As US economist John Kenneth Galbraith said "If all else fails, immortality can always be assured by spectacular error." ..failure is always an option and failure will sometimes happen, but its not an excuse not to give it your best shot and keep trying.
Keep aspiring for more, there are many ways to be great, one of those ways will work.
Thats my view on things anyway, for whatever its worth.
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"Normal" is one of those words i very rarely use, mainly because i don't think it exists, if you ask me "Normal" is the (false) idea that most people are somehow less .. weird, or have more mainstream tastes or views.
Of course not everyone considers that the definition of normal either, thats part of the problem, there are a number of possible definitions.
While i'm not a fan of the basic idea of normal in general, there are is a group of people out there that i really don't seem to understand. The ones who aspire for something called "The Norm" now, the exact definition of "the norm" changes at least slightly every decade or so, but in broad terms it encompases:
goto school, get an average job, get married, have kids, work for most of your life, retire, ...die..
While it seems that "the norm" is also slowly becoming broader in definition, there are quite a few people who still aspire to that definition even if they don't succeed in ever attaining it.
But, why? i mean, if thats really what you want, more power to you, but why do you want it?
You only live once, so why not aspire to change the world? aspire to leave your mark? ..aspire to make a big difference in history? what if you're the one that finally does that thing that no one else has done before? "The norm" seems rather like aspiring to mediocrity when you are able to do so much more.
As US economist John Kenneth Galbraith said "If all else fails, immortality can always be assured by spectacular error." ..failure is always an option and failure will sometimes happen, but its not an excuse not to give it your best shot and keep trying.
Keep aspiring for more, there are many ways to be great, one of those ways will work.
Thats my view on things anyway, for whatever its worth.
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