by Rex Apollo
I desired the “normal American life.” After five years of living in the land of wine and cheese, the land of kimchi, and the land siestas and fiestas, I returned to the States. Wandering the world, meeting interesting people and having adventures was just supposed to be something to get out of my system. I was going to act like a “real adult,” find a nice girl, get married, get a “normal job,” and buy a house in the suburbs like everyone else. That’s how you define normal, right?
My question is what is normal? Who gets to decide what normal is? Are we letting other people choose what is normal for us?
In my book, normal leads nowhere because it means we don’t have our own dreams or aspire to them. We are letting other people set our aspirations for us. We are demonstrating that we lack the will to decide on own “normal”. When we let others make decisions for us without having a will of our own, we cannot ever be truly happy.
Normal people spend two hours of their day driving back and forth to work. Does that sound fun to you? They sit in front of computers in cubicles so that they can make someone else richer. They care more about what their neighbors, family, and coworkers think than what they think. If you want to be normal, then hats off to you. I wish you all the best, but I’m done with normal.
So don’t aim for average anymore, endeavor for extraordinary!
Rex Apollo is the author of How to Spark Your Golden Age: Tips for Success sold on Amazon.
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