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Normal is Overrated
by , 09-08-2014 at 10:57 PM (1775 Views)
Sorry. Two blogs in one day. Or it might be two days. Kind of depends on what time zone you're in.
I'm not trying to boost my numbers or anything. I gave up on that contest years ago. Although competing for most blog entries (without cheating and posting one every five minutes with nothing more to add) was kind of fun.
I've been in a reflective mood. That's usually a gateway to a couple of days of sighing and not eating and sulking about the place, feeling tired all the time for no reason and generally feeling like a giant sack of ****. That's what happens when I get depressed.
I'm not sure how I feel at the moment. I think I can go either way. I'm watching one of my favourite comedies but it's about a kind of crazy funny family and it's what set me off down this route, even though it's hilarious. I'll see how I go.
I've been thinking about my family and how my life has been and if it's normal. If someone saw it would they think it was normal?
I've come to a decision. Or a realisation I guess. But I don't think it's new. I think I've had it before.
I'm not normal.
I've known that for a long time.
That's not the decision by the way, it's just the motive behind the decision.
But there's no guidelines for what is normal. And some things "normal" people do are quite bizarre. For example, I still cannot fathom why anyone would sit and watch Big Brother every night. Or, even worse, Celebrity big Brother. I just don't get it. Whenever I've strayed onto it it's just people sleeping. I know that's not all of the show. It's just one of the times when they go live to the house. But why would you go live at night time to watch people sleeping? What is the point?
And shows like The Only Way Is Essex, or TOWIE as people call it. What the **** is going on? There's a show called Gogglebox which is about people sitting at home watching the TV.
Why would anyone want to sit at home watching the TV watching people sitting at home watching the TV and what they're watching is a popular program from last week which you also watched?
Seriously. If I wanted to see the intimate details of the lives of strangers I'd become a stalker.
That's a very strange thing to say. And I know they say things like crazy people think they're normal and everyone else is crazy. But that's really what it feels like. Like they're the abnormal ones.
It's like the general public is just getting stupider and stupider. Not that I think I'm the height of intellect or anything. And it's not like I'm doing anything with my life so why should I feel somehow let down when other people waste their lives? Because I'm just idling it away with little input. They're idling it away watching other people in the dumbest shows that anyone can come up with.
How long will it be before the height of entertainment is a grey dot on a blank screen that every now and then blinks? You'll have people at work the next day going "did you see the dot?" "oh yeah. It was so good." "I know. It blinked nine times. It's never blinked nine times before." "I know. I'm so glad I stayed up until 3am to see it." "I know. If I'd gone to bed at 12am and got a good night's sleep I'd have missed the last two blinks. It was so worth it." And then the time it blinks thirteen times a small percent of the population think it's either a message from aliens and/or the first sign of the apocalypse and the majority of the nation say the next day "it blinked ten times. and then three." because they're too stupid to count beyond ten.
And thinking all this is not what "normal" people do. They either rave about it or troll on Twitter and stuff like that, randomly insulting the people they blame for what's bugging them and anyone who should disagree with them. Ten years ago if someone came up to you and said something random like "hashtag YOLO" you'd think they were crazy but that kind of thing is everywhere now and if you don't understand it then you're a freak because anyone and everyone understands it. (is that even how you spell hashtag? Wha tis a hashtag anyway. It's the one thing on a phone that I never knew the name for and it's called a hashtag? Isn't that supposed to mean an unspecified number? I was always wondering why things were saying number something-or-other. Took me a while to work out it was hashtag something-or-other.)
And some may wonder why I have problems socialising with others. (Well, I've certainly wondered)
Yeah.
Do you need any more than that?
And no. I know not everyone is like that. Far from it.
I'm just trying to highlight the point that if you really think about it nothing is normal.
So. For all the times I've wondered if I'm strange. if I'm a freak. Alien was one of the choice words for me at school. If I'm normal. And why am I not normal?
Why can't I be normal like everyone else?
Well. I've come to believe one thing.
Normal is overrated.
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