This is going to be a tad bit ironic on a blog called "A Not So Typical Life", but what is so bad about living a normal human life? You know the one; you get married, have a job, take care of your spouse and kids, get old and die. Nothing out of the ordinary, no huge achievements for history to remember you by. Just you enjoying your time on this earth with the ones that you love.
It seems today that people want the newest and greatest things. Like the new Iphone 5 or that new car your neighbor has in their driveway. Maybe the newest and greatest isn't material, maybe it's that coveted boss position at work, or that new twenty year old you get with if you had tons of money. Why is it that our society thinks you have to do something exciting to be happy? Now I'm not knocking those people who want to be the next Albert Einstein, or a more modern example Mark Zuckerberg. It's great that they have those aspirations if that is really what they want, but if it's what society has forced upon them then it is most certainly not okay.
As a society if we never tell the younger generation that it's okay to be normal, to be just average then can we really blame that generation for thinking they are a failure if they get straight B's? That kids will commit suicide because they weren't special enough? That is not a society I want to live in. I just want to tell them that it is okay to be average and to be normal. Normal people don't always succeed on the first try and that's okay.
I don't want to have a special life, I just want the normal one and that should be okay.
Just some food for thought.
