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BEING NORMAL ISN’T NORMAL
“If you’re always trying to be normal you will never know how amazing you can be.”-Maya Angelou
You have heard it before.
You probably have thought it before.
“I just want to be normal.”
“What you are doing isn’t normal.”
“I just want a normal life. A normal job. A normal family.”
And why not? Normalcy seems attractive. It seems stable. It offers order and stability in the face of a random and chaotic world that makes less sense by the day. Normal is a safe harbor in the face of the storm of life that will destroy any intrepid explorers. After all, it is much better to remain anchored in place and on dry land.
But this normality comes with a price that isn’t realized until it is too late. It is an exchange of growth for safety. Not true safety, but the safety of the mediocre majority. This safety will sap you of your potential. It will instill doubts and give power to your hesitations, making them titanic mountains while in reality, they are ant hills.
Eventually, that safe harbor will become a prison and you will lack the will and the strength to make your escape.
Why is this the case?