11/5/10

What does it mean to be Normal ?

What does it mean to be normal (Adapted From Coelho's "The Winner Stands Alone"):
  • Normal is what can make us forget who we are, and what we want .. so we can work and produce and give birth and make money..
  • Wasting your years studying in college to discover in the end that you can’t be employed
  • You retire, and discover that you don’t have any more energy to enjoy life, so you die of boredom
  • Believing that power is much more important that money, and money infinitely more important than happiness
  • Making fun of everyone who seeks happiness instead of money, and accusing them of lack of ambition
  • Comparing things like cars, houses and clothes, and measuring life by these things, instead of trying to find the true purpose of life
  • Getting married, having kids, and staying together for a long time after the death of love, saying that this isfor the kids
  • Criticizing everyone who tries to be different
  • Putting a piece of colored cloth around your neck, although it has absolutely no use other than being called a tie
  • Never asking the direct question, although the other person can guess what you want
  • Keeping a smile on, even on the verge of crying, and feeling sad for those who show their feelings
  • Despising all that easily achieved, because it is worthless if it didn’t take sacrifice
  • Following fashion, no matter how silly and uncomfortable
  • Wasting a lot of time on external beauty, and little attention to internal beauty
  • Using everything to appear above other humans, although you are normal
  • Facing the door in an elevator, pretending you are the only one there
  • Covering the christmans tree, in the southern hemisphere, with snow, even though christ’s birth had nothing to do with winter
  • Going to a charity tea party, and beileving you have done enough to end social disparity
  • Eating three times a day, even if not hungry
  • Always saying you tried, although you never did
  • Delaying the important things in life till later.. where you will have no more energy
  • Avoiding melancholy with excessive doeses of tv-watching
  • To believe that being a good, honest and decent person will make other see you weak, breakable and easily manipulated.. and to believe that aggressiveness and rudeness are equivalents of a strong personality

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