What is NORMAL?
- Sushma Raj

- Aug 1, 2020
- 2 min read

"I was a normal child, but it's the world that made me feel different"
-Laxmi Narayan Tripathi
What is normal according to you? Being able to eat with your hands, see and perceive things, or being able to feel comfortable in your own skin? Sorry to shatter your delusion made of glass, but you aren't right.
Up until several years ago, adults were "lactose nonpersistent" as scientists call it, but can we; at least the majority of us imagine our daily meals without dairy? feel free to label yourselves as abnormal because that's exactly what we are, the whole bunch of us before we call anyone else that abnormally normal word. Wait a minute and think, maybe butterflies weren't supposed to fly but maybe crawl their way through life, so wouldn't they be abnormal as well? But why aren't they not scorned or looked down upon? Everything that is "normal" is not beautiful. Beauty is what's on the inside and that cannot be tagged with anything exterior.
This contradiction in our society leads me to the thought about the LBGTQA+ community. There are about 70% of our society in my knowledge who think they are just "acting" or doing it for money because they are the "lazy bunch of people" who do not want to struggle for a living and fend for themselves.
To all those imbecile people out there, do you really think that in a world like ours, anyone would want to portray themselves in a way where their self-respect, image, profile, "status" would be worth sacrificing just for some petty money?
Despite all the clutches from the society, family, friends they build the courage to come out of their shells in the hopes of feeling comfortable living with themselves, they do it to live a life that the world hasn't chosen out for them or to live through something other than what is predefined as "NORMAL". Imagine how uncomfortable it makes you when you are around someone you don't like or you get repelled by being with them and now replace that someone with yourself and now you are forced to live with that day in and day out.
If this doesn't help you to understand even the slightest bit about what they go through, I wouldn’t bother trying it out any other way. Others aren't necessarily supposed to be like you and constantly agree with you and that is OK. Accept reality instead of choosing to live in denial. Everyone is born perfect.





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