Normal

What is "Normal"?

When a child comes of the age that they are conscious of their own body they assume that everyone has what they have. Little boys assume that everyone has a penis and girls assume that everyone has a vagina. When the day comes that they find out that not everyone is like them, it changes their world forever.

Growing up I always had long toes and had the ability to cross them over each other. As a child when people would say they would "cross their fingers" for luck I would say I'm cross my fingers and toes. I thought that everyone had the ability to cross their toes. Little did I know that almost no one has that ability.

Normal is a point of view much like good and bad. In your point of view what you do is normal and everyone else is different or strange. You struggle to understand why people don't act "normal" like you do. Can't they understand that this is how they are supposed to act? You find groups of people that agree with you and act similar to you, this reaffirms that you truly are normal. This also reaffirms that those other people need to realize that they are wrong.

But what is normal to you is really strange to others. You may have a group around you that act "normally" but there are other whole groups of people that think you're just weird.

Never allow yourself to be told that being different is wrong. We are all different and unique and that needs to be accepted and embraced. Never change yourself just to suit others definition of "normal". You are unique and bring something to this world that no one else can. You have your own perspective and life story that no one else has.