Let me feel you carry you higher
Watch our words spread hope like fire
Secret crowds rise up and gather
Hear your voices sing back louder
-Secret Crowds; Angels & Airwaves
Watch our words spread hope like fire
Secret crowds rise up and gather
Hear your voices sing back louder
-Secret Crowds; Angels & Airwaves
Someone called me 'abnormal' today when I told them I didn't have a boyfriend. And that I'm not looking for one.
At first, I was taken aback. I wanted to shout at him. Yell out that he was wrong.
But as he walked away, I realized he was right.
Very right.
Today, it isn't normal to not have a significant other, or want one (right now).
However, I think people get 'normal' and 'correct' mixed up.
Normal simply means it's common. Not necessarily right or wrong.
Here's some examples:
In the next twenty four hours, 2,795 Teenage girls will become pregnant.
In the U.S., we eat more than 1,000,000 animals an hour
Every 2 hours a youth is murdered.
McDonald's feeds more than 46 million people a day - more than the entire population of Spain.
8,000 teenagers contract an STD every day.
Okay, so the above things are common. Sadly.
Which means they are...normal. Sadly again.
That being in the sense of how it is defined in the dictionary.
It's not right, at all! But it's normal. It's day to day happenings.
As I said earlier, people mix the meaning up. They think 'normal' things
are right. Acceptable. Common. Okay. Good. Up the the standards.
I disagree with some of these.
If one person can say that the fact that a youth is murdered every 2 hours is acceptable...
then we need to talk.
Badly.
I don't know. That silly phrase this morning threw me off. I, like many others, saw
the definitions of normal meaning the same thing as 'correct'.
But after I thought about it, I realized he was right.
I am 'abnormal' in that department.
Who cares?
I'm happy.
At first, I was taken aback. I wanted to shout at him. Yell out that he was wrong.
But as he walked away, I realized he was right.
Very right.
Today, it isn't normal to not have a significant other, or want one (right now).
However, I think people get 'normal' and 'correct' mixed up.
Normal simply means it's common. Not necessarily right or wrong.
Here's some examples:
In the next twenty four hours, 2,795 Teenage girls will become pregnant.
In the U.S., we eat more than 1,000,000 animals an hour
Every 2 hours a youth is murdered.
McDonald's feeds more than 46 million people a day - more than the entire population of Spain.
8,000 teenagers contract an STD every day.
Okay, so the above things are common. Sadly.
Which means they are...normal. Sadly again.
That being in the sense of how it is defined in the dictionary.
It's not right, at all! But it's normal. It's day to day happenings.
As I said earlier, people mix the meaning up. They think 'normal' things
are right. Acceptable. Common. Okay. Good. Up the the standards.
I disagree with some of these.
If one person can say that the fact that a youth is murdered every 2 hours is acceptable...
then we need to talk.
Badly.
I don't know. That silly phrase this morning threw me off. I, like many others, saw
the definitions of normal meaning the same thing as 'correct'.
But after I thought about it, I realized he was right.
I am 'abnormal' in that department.
Who cares?
I'm happy.
:P dont listen to someone else's definition of "normal" its not the same for everyone. taking the backseat and letting a relationship come to you, isnt a bad thing. its much more common than most people care to admit. hit the panic button when youre turning 30. lol. --but hopefully it happens before then ofc. :)
ReplyDeletethere's nothing wrong with eating animals. they were created for that purpose: our sustenance.
ReplyDeletebut yeah, i get this. i wish i could stand up and say i wouldn't mind not being "normal" but anymore? it's all i think about.
great song, btw