I’m going to start my thoughts with the title itself, have you ever stopped and thought about who is the “King” of what is normal and what is not? Who is that person that entitles us to certain feelings about certain situations? The person who holds us down from certain emotions that God forbid we might feel? I was engaged in a conversation a few days ago, when a friend of mine said, “I don’t cry in public, because then people might think that I am weak.” Another person replied back by saying “So what? What if people thought you are weak?” That’s when I started to think of how hard humans are on themselves, acting like they’re tough, faking feelings, hiding emotions; just that people wouldn’t know that we are “weak”. That taboo word that we live our lives trying to not let it stick to us. I’m not saying that every single situation deserves Niagara Falls; I just strongly believe that many people get into the habit of not showing emotions, hiding feelings, which in the future might lead to worse psychological issues. The fact that people don’t want to deal with their emotions because they have the mentality that they would settle for “weak” if they did. I honestly think of being “normal” as a myth. People drown themselves in the myth of normal just to please others around them, not thinking about what is REALLY exciting about being normal? Sticks you to a stereotype that everyone else is entitled to by God knows who, hides your uniqueness, and not to mention a very predictable-boring life. The main question is, do you want to hide who you are? Or unleash yourself to others? There are many things we need to face once we decide to unleash the true us. Firstly, the fact that some people WILL be judgmental of you given that they’re stuck in the myth of “Normal”. Secondly, is basically to accept your flaws. Everyone has flows, sadly speaking most of us don’t know that our flaws are what makes us who we are, they are the things that most of the time people miss us for when we are not around. Normal changes over time, let us rewind 20 years back, would it be normal for women to have the same rights as men? No. Let us rewind a few years back if 20 years is too far long, would it be normal for people to walk around and smoke indoors? Yes. Is it normal now? No. Not only that it isn’t normal, it’s illegal! I guess this normal myth we’re all drowned in is not stable to begin with. Then why should we make it a priority in our lives?