What is normal?

Feeling: belligerent
What is a normal social life? What is normal? I am, as many are, having trouble understanding this term. It seems to mean something different to everyone. The deffinition of normal fluxuates from person to person. For some, normal means being average or doing things that the average person does. The problem with this is that there is no average person. The average person could be defined as doing whatever the majority does. This, I believe, is impossible because everyone is in the minority somehow. I mean, technically, no man can be the average because there are more women in America than men. If you want to think in global standards, the average person is Chinese because China, having the largest population in the world currently, controlls the marjority. If you want to think in local terms, take a random small population and look at every aspect of their lives. Compare these aspects to eachother and you will see that no one in that population contains the exact average of all of the elements presented. Thus, it is impossible to be average and this deffinition is void. Another person may define normal as being able to do things that people are born able to do. For instance, the normal person is born with the ability to see and hear. In this respect, normality is determined by genetics. However, genetic studies show us that every person is born with some sort of "abnormality" on the genetic level. These genetic differences have an impact on how our body works and how are body is different than other people's bodies. Some deformations are less evident, like some people the bottom of their earlobes attached to their head and others do not. As to which of these is more common I am not sure, but the one that happened the most would be considered normal. Some differences are so small and unimportant that they are completely unnoticable. No two DNA strands are exactly alike, except in cases where identical children are born. So, I suppose under this deffinition, the person with the most brothers or sisters identical to them is the most normal. The truth, as I see it, is that either none of us are normal because none of us can form for ourselves to a solid deffinition for what a normal person is or we are all normal in the fact that none of us are normal. Because no person is exactly like another person, we all share that characteristic that none of us are exactly alike. Through this logic, all of us are normal in the fact that all of us are different. "And it just so happens now, Our friends know what we're all about..."
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Hey!! What's up? I'm bored!! I hate school!! Well, this was great!!
-beth-
[Anonymous]
No such thing as normal.
[Anonymous]
vegetarians eat vegetables. beware of humanitarians
I liked your entry. Kinda screwy, but cool. Damn that relativity, huh. I think normal is boring. Normal is unoriginal. But no one's unoriginal, like you said. Maybe "normal" and people trying to have a "normal" life is also another word for "scared of your inherant beauty." Good thing normalcy is unachievable.
[Anonymous]
No human concept seems to be without flaw... I think it has more to do with gradations of normality- what we concider normal Also many times normal applies to much smaller groups than the global population ie normal speech developement for a child of X age this statement doesn't say that the kid in question has the identicle speach patern as all other kids his age but its normal, not great not bad I dont know some things arnt worth over anilining
Most human concepts are flawed. I dunno. I was trying to determine a solid deffinition for normality on a grand scale so as to understand why people want to be normal. I suppose normality can be determined by averages in some cases. However, these cases can only serve as correlational studies and lack the solid proof of an actual experiment because what is true of the small group surveyed may not be true of a larger group. Again, I over-analyze.
hmm well you have a lot to say so to speak and well i'm a little too lazy to read it all right now, but i agree that there is no average person only a persona and well conformity is the end all of everything.
hmm yes quite interesting.
rock on.
yeah i over analyze things too. However I do not wish to be normal, I rather enjoy being weird, besides who's to say what normal is? There probably is no such thing as normal.
I just read your entry, and I agree.