Escape the Pull of Normality
Make Your Life Spectacular
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THE PULL IS STRONG
“Normality is a paved road: It’s comfortable to walk, but no flowers grow on it.”-Vincent Van Gogh
Life isn’t easy.
It never has been and never will be.
We all deal with stress and drama. They are omnipresent and inescapable. Our opinions make us targets on Facebook and Twitter. At work, we deal with unruly customers and bosses who don’t cut us any slack. Our friends and relationships offer us no respite. And among this turbulent sea of drama, we are constantly bombarded with images and videos of the good life from Instagram and Tik-Tok.
It has become too much for too many.
All we want is a cure, nothing grandiose, nothing too out of reach, but just something normal.
Yes, normality, which in turn means a normal life.
A normal life. Something that we can all aspire to one day have.
It sounds nice, doesn’t it?
No need for excitement. No need for dreams or challenges. No need for anything above a normal job, with a normal salary, normal hours, and normal living conditions. A normal neighborhood with normal neighbors. Where everyone has the same normal concerns, the same normal aspirations, the same normal desires, and the same normal hopes and dreams.
We watch the same normal shows and movies. We read the same normal books. We think the same normal thoughts. Never once questioning or complaining. We eat the same normal foods, spend our time doing the same normal activities.
Just a normal everyday life without drama is something that so many are craving.
But make no mistake about this normal life. This is a sterile existence.
An existence where everyone wants the same, thinks the same, and is the same.
An existence of conformity and subjugation.
The truth of the matter?
Normal is a setting on the washing machine.
Nothing more, nothing less. It is a mirage on the horizon. A fever dream. A state of being that provides some measure of safety in exchange for a life of possibilities.
Yet so many want this normality. They dream of this. They believe that once this normalcy is achieved, their life will change in unimaginable ways.
It won’t.
“To be “normal” is the ideal aim for the unsuccessful, for all those who are still below the general level of adaptation. But for people of more than average ability...the moral compulsion to be nothing but normal signifies the bed of Procrustes-deadly and insupportable boredom, a hell of sterility and hopelessness.”-Carl Jung, Practice of Psychotherapy
Normal lives are bereft of passion. They lack meaning and courage. Because the normal desire nothing extraordinary, they are faced with small goals and an even smaller vision.
Don’t make this mistake.
You are made for so much more.
You are capable of so much more.
But how?
How can you achieve a life of living rather than simply existing?