Post by jcldragon on May 8, 2005 7:12:45 GMT -5
The world has a habit of conforming to our collective expectations. So it might be a good idea for us to examine what we consider normal. If we expect the world to be a dark, dangerous, and violent place, we most certainly will get it. If people expected peace, prosperity & progress to be normal, they could get that, too.
I look at the world this way, and it seems to be in a state of aberation. There's nothing normal about it, but I would like it to be. That motivates me to do things, which will change that. As a child you might have had this notion of what was normal : that it was normal for a person to die quietly in their sleep, after a long & fulfilling life. Anything different would either be an accident or a tragedy.
The world is having wars, disease, poverty, & overpopulation. If people view that as normal, it most certainly will stay that way. If people view that as insanity, then they will think up ways to make it different. It all has to do with what people choose to accept as being normal. I remember when segregation was considered normal by most people. The Civil Rights movement changed that vision of what was normal, and for the most part, we don't have segregation anymore. What is left of segregation now, exists because some people, (a very few these days), still cling to it.
Don't let anybody tell you what normal is. Decide that for yourself. Don't let anybody tell you what other people believe, because they are in no better position than you are to know what that is. The more that people adopt the attitude that peace, prosperity, & progress are normal, the faster those things will become normal. Don't let the bullies & dream-killers rule the world with their nightmare versions of what is normal. Expose the nightmares for what they are : nightmares. Nightmares end when you wake up. Remind people of that, and give them a better vision of what normal is supposed to be. The world could wake up from the nightmare it is having, but that is not going to happen before people adopt a better Vision.
What would you like normal to be?
I look at the world this way, and it seems to be in a state of aberation. There's nothing normal about it, but I would like it to be. That motivates me to do things, which will change that. As a child you might have had this notion of what was normal : that it was normal for a person to die quietly in their sleep, after a long & fulfilling life. Anything different would either be an accident or a tragedy.
The world is having wars, disease, poverty, & overpopulation. If people view that as normal, it most certainly will stay that way. If people view that as insanity, then they will think up ways to make it different. It all has to do with what people choose to accept as being normal. I remember when segregation was considered normal by most people. The Civil Rights movement changed that vision of what was normal, and for the most part, we don't have segregation anymore. What is left of segregation now, exists because some people, (a very few these days), still cling to it.
Don't let anybody tell you what normal is. Decide that for yourself. Don't let anybody tell you what other people believe, because they are in no better position than you are to know what that is. The more that people adopt the attitude that peace, prosperity, & progress are normal, the faster those things will become normal. Don't let the bullies & dream-killers rule the world with their nightmare versions of what is normal. Expose the nightmares for what they are : nightmares. Nightmares end when you wake up. Remind people of that, and give them a better vision of what normal is supposed to be. The world could wake up from the nightmare it is having, but that is not going to happen before people adopt a better Vision.
What would you like normal to be?
