" Sane is the insanity most call normality put forth by society " - Erik Til
Is there such a thing as "normality" in a society that preaches nothing but abnormal standards?
Kids are programmed to believe, from an early age, that if they don’t manage to follow the pace of the educational system that they are put in, it makes them anti-normal students. But the real truth (the one that isn’t brought to light) is that it’s the system that they are trapped in that is abnormal. Students shouldn’t have to adapt themselves to an outdated schooling system ; the system should have to adapt itself to its students.
Schools don’t aim to produce smart students. If that was the aim of such a system, students would be given the task of challenging the validity of any kind of information that they would receive from their teachers. The education system of today isn’t designed that way. In fact, it’s rather a means to an end. Sadly, the end isn’t to better you as a human being or to develop your inner value. The end is a piece of paper that will perhaps enable you to get the job you studied for.
I like to see myself as a free thinker. I try my best to live my day to day life with as much self-awareness and clarity as possible. In my own conventional book of wisdom, there ain’t such a thing as normality. Even if there were to be such a thing as "normality", it would be measured by a set of specific standards that would most likely contain some form of bias. In other words, normality can’t be normality.
If being busy just for the sake of being busy is normal, if getting married even though 50% of marriages fail and most long time married couples are unhappy is normal, if working yourself to death is normal, if relying on a system that doesn’t give a single shit about our well-being is normal, if teaching boys that crying is a sign of weakness is normal, if having men take crucial decisions on whether or not abortion should be legal is normal, if putting in jeopardy our relationship for the sake of our own ego is normal, if keeping up with the joneses is normal, then I am proud to say that I don’t want to be normal.
Me. lol
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What if it is my great ambition in life to be able to answer, truthfully, when people ask upon meeting "How are you? with a calm and confident:
"Very normal, thank you."
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I might just start using that line now 😏
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Let's start a Normal Club. To be a member, you must promise to answer "very normal, thank you" whenever anyone asks you "Comment vas-tu?"
The membership fee is 5 steem, payable to my account.
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HAHAHAHAHAHAHA love it!!!! I'm in!!!
Love that you put some french in there. Definitely put a smile on my face:P
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Normal - what is normal?
David Icke put it nicely;
'Normal is simply what we normally (usually) experience.'
To a child born into a poor family, poverty and hustle is normal.
To somebody who grew up around riches, exclusiveness and luxury is normal.
The norm - an idea conceptualised into something that is imposed on us by society - is, in my eyes, just another belief system out there. Just like we choose to experience life through the lens of a creed we feel most in tune with, we choose if we want to go down the path of 'the norm'; the systematically laid out path of life - school, college, marriage, debt, death.
We do not have to subscribe to such beliefs though; we can choose to go down the path of spontaneous freedom, whilst keeping in mind that people who are ignorant to the imprisonment of their mind are not to blame. I touch on this topic in my Freedom Friday post.
Lack of judgement and separation when we speak to or on these people is vital, as talking down on people who are under such illusions does nothing but create a barrier between us and them.
'Better to build a bridge, than instead of to build a wall' - A wise lyric from Skip & Damian Marley's new song, That's Not True.
Thanks for sharing! I enjoyed reading this; your way of thinking is super interesting; you seem really alive!
Namaste!
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Wow! This comment is everything! I couldn't agree more.
Please never stop writing. You bring so much wisdom into light.💜
Thanks so much for taking the time to write to me and thanks very much for your sweet words!
Namaste! 💫🔮
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Normal... more like original.
We all are what we always have been, there may be unlocking of certain dormant traits.. but deep down we have always been what we are now.
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