What is being normal? Are you normal?

Omkar Hiremath
Jul 27, 2017 · 1 min read

We often hear about disabled people and how they don’t let their disability stop them from being like other people without any disabilities. They find out a way to lead their life like other normal people. They make themselves better than what they actually are. They try to be normal. This got me thinking, if according to this, if being better than what a person already is, is being normal, are we normal?

People without disabilities have not been set back by physical/mental difficulties. And yet they take life for granted. They crave for things more than they deserve not realizing that they haven’t done enough to deserve it. They spend their lives wasting it. They don’t try to be better. In fact, they don’t even try to be what they actually are. Then what exactly is being “disabled” and being “normal”?

Being normal is trying to be better than what you actually are. And not being normal is being disabled.

Disability is not being physically or mentally challenged. Disability is: not trying to be better than yourself, not trying to improve yourself.

So, are you trying to be better than yourself? Are you normal or disabled?

If you ain’t trying to be better than yourself, you should start right now. Because that’s what will make you normal.

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