Normal is Unknown

“Your answer is the logical, coherent answer an absolutely normal person would give: It's a tie! A lunatic, however, would say that what I have around my neck is a ridiculous, useless bit of colored cloth tied in a very complicated way, which makes it harder to get air into your lungs and difficult to turn your neck. I have to be careful when I'm anywhere near a fan, or I could be strangled by this bit of cloth.

If a lunatic were to ask me what this tie is for, I would have to say, absolutely nothing. It's not even purely decorative, since nowadays it's become a symbol of slavery, power, aloofness. The only really useful function a tie serves is the sense of relief when you get home and take it off; you feel as if you've freed yourself from something, though quite what you don't know.”

After I read this piece from 'Veronika Decides to Die' by Paulo Coelho I realized how "normal" is unknown. In our tiny world, to us, we seem normal, however, it is a mere perception we carry because it is conformed by the community we belong to. "This is how we've been doing it and this is how it works." Have we wondered that our normal could be abnormal to someone else, potentially someone that belongs to a world with a different interpretation of normalcy?

We have grown up living in our idea of "normal" and have been practicing the idiosyncrasies. 

To break the bubble we sit inside, the first step is to realize that "normal" is unknown and the second step is to question every perceived normal that does not make sense ANYMORE, not because we are a rebel but because we are simply inquisitive.