(March 29, 2019 at 4:31 pm)IWNKYAAIMI Wrote: I've been thinking about a conversation I had with someone in a different thread. I'm now wondering, what is the standard for being normal?
I have my issues, but see myself as being pretty normal. The thing is, maybe I'm not. I'm thinking about diagnosis of people broadly, and society claiming to know what is normal.
Maybe humans are supposed to be depressives and unhappy. We fight against it in loads of different ways, we imagine Gods that love us, we drink alcohol, we pop pills, we have pet cats, we pursue happiness.
Maybe those that we categorise are the only people being true to themselves IDK.
Can anyone point to someone and say "There goes Dave, he's completely normal."
I know people who don't seem to have any neurotic tendencies at all. They're highly intelligent, happy, well liked, and successful in their professions. They are what I think of, when I think of 'normal'. I tend to believe that there is such a thing as normal, but I don't think that we should aspire too much to be normal if we are not normal. Being normal is not normal for some of us. Does that make abnormal 'normal' for individuals who aren't normal? Sort of yes, and sort of no. Take a person who is born with three nipples. Is that normal? No. Is it normal for them? Sure.
We do not inherit the world from our parents. We borrow it from our children.