What If Normal is the Illusion?
Maybe normal and normalcy are what’s truly weird in the world.
People are always bombarded by the idea of being “normal”. Like this concept is what makes the world go ‘round.
I tried, in my 20s and 30s, to be normal. I took jobs from 9–5 in various industries that were considered normal and necessary. Each of which tended to crush my soul. Corporate America and I did not see eye to eye. My attempts to work a normal job made me shrink from my true self and contributed to my depression.
Likewise, I strove for the perceived normal with relationships. I got in and out of standard monogamous relationships, but they never quite fit me. Worse, I cheated on various lovers along the way and suffered what I called “the grass is always greener” syndrome.
I could give lots of further examples of my failures to be normal. However, instead, I’d like to share what happened when I started embracing not normal choices. When I sought and took jobs that weren’t standard 9–5 gigs, embraced being a creative and writing full-time, and stopped striving for monogamy in relationships and embraced polyamory.
Though this didn’t make me permanently happy or always content, it sure as hell contributed to me having better mental health, living more productively, and becoming…
