" Sane is the insanity most call normality put forth by society " - Erik Til
Is there such a thing as "normality" in a society that preaches nothing but abnormal standards?
Kids are programmed to believe, from an early age, that if they don’t manage to follow the pace of the educational system that they are put in, it makes them anti-normal students. But the real truth (the one that isn’t brought to light) is that it’s the system that they are trapped in that is abnormal. Students shouldn’t have to adapt themselves to an outdated schooling system ; the system should have to adapt itself to its students.
Schools don’t aim to produce smart students. If that was the aim of such a system, students would be given the task of challenging the validity of any kind of information that they would receive from their teachers. The education system of today isn’t designed that way. In fact, it’s rather a means to an end. Sadly, the end isn’t to better you as a human being or to develop your inner value. The end is a piece of paper that will perhaps enable you to get the job you studied for.
I like to see myself as a free thinker. I try my best to live my day to day life with as much self-awareness and clarity as possible. In my own conventional book of wisdom, there ain’t such a thing as normality. Even if there were to be such a thing as "normality", it would be measured by a set of specific standards that would most likely contain some form of bias. In other words, normality can’t be normality.
If being busy just for the sake of being busy is normal, if getting married even though 50% of marriages fail and most long time married couples are unhappy is normal, if working yourself to death is normal, if relying on a system that doesn’t give a single shit about our well-being is normal, if teaching boys that crying is a sign of weakness is normal, if having men take crucial decisions on whether or not abortion should be legal is normal, if putting in jeopardy our relationship for the sake of our own ego is normal, if keeping up with the joneses is normal, then I am proud to say that I don’t want to be normal.
