What is “normal”?
Websters Dictionary defines it as not abnormal. Well, thanks a freakin’ heap, Websters. You are SO helpful. To be fair, it also describes normal as conforming to a standard or the common type, and free from mental disorder; sane.
Am I normal, according to these definitions? Uhm… I dunno.
Is it normal to be 40-ish, over worked and under paid, slightly balding, marginally overweight, battling a bad back, bad hips, bad ankles, hemorrhoids, ringing ears, near-sightedness, grinding teeth, nose hair, back hair, ear hair, … ?
Does all this make me normal? Maybe.
A quote I read today says that “normal is getting dressed in clothes that you buy for work and driving through traffic in a car that you are still paying for – in order to get to the job you need to pay for the clothes and the car, and the house you leave vacant all day so you can afford to live in it.”
Does this make me normal? Definitely.
So… what’s normal? Are you normal?
Deborah
October 17, 2008 at 9:56 pm
Am I normal? Well, I would like to think I am, but does being as tolerant and patient about things that I shouldn’t be tolerant and patient about make me normal?…I wonder. Anyway, if it doesn’t mean I am normal, then I can’t wait to be…lol
Steve
October 18, 2008 at 11:16 am
Deb… you’re about as normal as I am. (How’s that for ambiguous!?)
Rob O.
October 19, 2008 at 7:35 am
In most cases, I think I’m more Abby Normal than normal.
Melissa
October 19, 2008 at 11:08 pm
Well Uncle Steve, I am actually studying about “normal” in sociology for my dirty ol’ midterm tomorrow morning, and my book defines normal (or norms) as being standards of behavior or generally accepted ways of doing things. I think that most of us aren’t normal because it’s almost impossible to conform to societies standards of behavior ALL THE TIME, but that is just typical human behavior…it’s normal.
Steve
October 20, 2008 at 1:37 pm
I hear you Melissa… most of my experience with “normal” is observing it from a distance.
Melissa
October 20, 2008 at 10:58 pm
I guess that would explain my life in a nutshell too! lol
Pender
October 27, 2008 at 3:04 pm
I’m normal, you’re all freaks.
Steve
October 27, 2008 at 5:33 pm
Ouch!