The dilemma of normal and abnormal

    Sanskriti
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    Normal and abnormal, a very common set of word, used by all of us, everyday. But let me ask a question why is something normal and something else abnormal? For example being a girl or a boy is normal but being anything else is abnormal. Being a corporate slave is normal but being an environmentalists or writer abnormal. Because a lot of people are doing something, they say that it’s normal. It sometimes is because normalcy makes life easier, other times it because that’s the only thing that people know, so their lack of knowledge makes things abnormal.

    And now let me ask another question who is expected to be normal? Let’s see. The masses . Since the day a person is born we start categorising them, if a boy likes guns it’s normal but a girl should not or she is abnormal. If you like someone from another gender that’s normal other wise it’s not. If they are smart in academics they are normal otherwise abnormal and so on.

    Now comes the question what happens due to this dilemma of normal and abnormal? Again let’s look around. We kill people. We kill a happy child’s laughter just because they are not smart. We kill a teenager’s confidence because they are not able to love according to the norms of the society. We kill someone’s youth because their life choices are unconventional. We create, generation after generation, humans without soul and then say “where is humanity dying?”.

    Now again let me just ask you this question who set the bars of normalcy? The normals,no. The abnormal absolutely not. The society does. But all of us are parts of society, but we didn’t set this bar. At least I didn’t . And I don’t think so any of us did. It is a system, the system of those who have control over production. The people of power. The haves. But why?? Very easy, to maintain the system. To maintain their authority, their control.

    But what do haves gain from all of this? A delusion. A delusion that they are in control, that they can dictate where the civilization will move. They are not even thinking that they too have been bound by this normal and so many of them also gain nothing out of this except a illusion that they are happy.

    If you can’t be who you naturally are, if you can’t be with who you love, if you can’t to do what you wish to do, if your definition of happiness is also not yours, then what is it that you have gained? Yes you gain a society of dead humanity, a society struggling so much that they are ready to kill on your one word that they are normal. Yes you gain a world where even basic life necessities are something that is to be achieved not something you are entitled to. Yes you gain pain, horror, death.

    So why do we strive to be normal ? Because we want to be accepted, we want to be loved. We want to be worthy of living and this system if we are not “normal” makes us feel unworthy of living, unworthy of even existing. That is how twisted it is. No one wants to beg, everyone wants to live with dignity but this system of normal has brought us to that stage of madness where we are ready to do anything just to be normal

    And this is what the struggle is all about! For removing this normal and making everything normal. So that everyone feels loved and accepted in this society without having to kill themselves in name of normalcy. All the activism is just for that. To make things normal but this normal includes all without discrimination. You don’t have to fit in any box, you exist and you have all the rights and that also means you are normal. It is normal if you are not into academics , it's normal if you love someone from your gender or even if you don’t love anyone. It’s normal if you wish to be a painter, a singer, a teacher, or politician. A Dalit is as normal as Brahmin and has all the rights that the other has. Same goes with Muslims Christians atheist or anyone else. You exist you are normal, worthy of everything that the world has to offer. You have opportunity to be who you are without fearing about survival as it’s normal to have everything you need for survival. You don’t need to kill your dreams. You don’t need to be anything except what you are and what you wish to be.