Nothing wrong with a normal life!
Date: 7th March 2022
Happy Monday, Readers! How are you all doing today? I hope you had a nice weekend, and I hope you have a great/productive week ahead.
It is a new week, which means we all have to return to our various jobs and activities. Sometimes I don’t particularly appreciate blinking during the weekends because it genuinely goes in a flash.
I remember when I celebrated Friday, but now I am in a new week preparing for exams; life truly doesn’t wait for anyone.
I want to start this article with a story from when I was younger, this story goes way back to when I was in primary/grade school, but for some reason, I can remember it clearly, maybe because I have been asking myself the same question since then.
When we were all gathered in class, our teacher asked every student their future dreams, car, and all sorts of things associated.
As usual, everyone, including myself, talked about big houses, the best cars, and the best life that we could ever imagine.
It reached the last student’s turn, and when they were asked, the teacher was shocked because their answer was different from the rest of us and not what you would expect from a child of that age.
“When I grow up, I want an average life, with a normal family, normal house, normal car, and everything else, that is my dream said the student.”
The teacher had to check if what they heard was true, and she asked the question again, but the student gave the teacher the same answer, and even further asked the teacher a question,
“Teacher, what is wrong with being normal?
Our teacher stood there thinking of what they could tell the student, and for a minute, the class was silent.
We were thinking of what to say, and it got to a point where we wanted to know the answer.
“What is wrong with being Normal?
From a tender age, we are all taught that we should let our imaginations run wild and never settle for normal because normal is poor, but is that the truth?
I see no problem with individuals wanting to live an average/normal life because it is all up to them, and not everyone wants to live luxurious lives.
I don’t particularly appreciate how society pushes the idea that being a normal/average person means that you are garbage.
In the society that we live in.
If a person isn’t living luxuriously or living the so-called best life, we would normally consider them not reaching their full potential or lazy people because they are unwilling to achieve more, but that shouldn’t be how things operate.
I have seen many people who have suffered from this societal problem because they spend all their time working and grinding to achieve this so-called “best life” that society has put on a pedestal.
Sometimes these people even end up overworking themselves to death, all in the name of achieving it.
I don’t know how far we have come in this world to the point where having a normal car and normal life is considered bad; I understand it is good always to dream big.
Still, you should know that having all those luxurious stuff doesn’t necessarily mean that you will live the best life.
“The Rich do Cry,” they say.
There are tons of rich/wealthy people who may seem like they have it all, but you would rather be yourself than be them because if they were to tell you what they were passing through, you wouldn’t even want to be rich anymore.
I am trying to say that it doesn’t matter if you want to live a luxurious or normal life; all that should matter to you is finding the place that you feel most comfortable in because, after all, you are more important.
There is no point in killing yourself over something that won’t guarantee your happiness.
“Is there anything wrong with being Normal?
Thank you for reading!
It's totally true! Many people lead us to want to sew really extraordinary when in reality we should enjoy what we are really passionate about even if it is something "normal" in society