Why You Should Refuse To Be Normal...

I gladly tell anyone who asks me that I never want to be 'normal'. However, a good friend of friend of mine couldn't understand why I DIDN'T want to be normal!

I had to explain to her that my version of normal meant that I...

- Refused to accept that I had to work hard until I retired
- Knew that I was as 'special', 'talented', or 'gifted' as anyone else
- Didn't have to limit myself just because everyone else does for various reasons
- Had complete responsibility and control for both where I currently am, and where I am going
- Refused to even entertain thoughts that anything other than my thoughts, feelings, and their resulting actions could influence my life
- Understood that any crap in my life could either drag me down, or be used as a learning experience - even if it may sometimes be difficult to do so.
- Live a life of my own choosing, whatever the consequences

There are a few more, but I can't think of them at the moment!

You see, YOU and I weren't put on this Earth to wish our lives away for something that may never happen! In fact, in many cases, even if we get there, there will probably STILL be something 'missing'! What's the point of that!!

I see it all the time. It's just what we're brought up to believe, and further 'educated' on by the media as the years go on.

Even my own family laugh at me because my priorities are different to everyone else's (and I mean EVERYONE!). They think that I am chasing a 'dream', when in fact I'm just getting closer to the purpose I am here for - to experience what this life brings me, or more accurately, to experience what I bring into my life as a result of the way that I think and feel.

Whether you may hate me for saying so - it's not good enough for you to accept that leading a 'NORMAL' life is something that you aim for! You can moan all you like about why you can't do something with your life, but I can guarantee that, without a doubt, YOU yourself are holding yourself back in some way.

I devote my life to learning this stuff, and teaching what I learn about it, and I can tell you - the more you realize that YOU alone have the control and the power of your own destiny - the more chance you will have of creating one that you really want!

Posted by vurnumg




Comments

Thank you for this wonderful understanding. You see, I am not normal either, and I am more than okay with that. Now I know why:)
    Posted By Elizabeth at 2008-04-16 20:31:04

Real Talk man. Every word. I've NEVER truly been "normal" myself; I even have this saying of mine that, "I wonder what it's like to think INSIDE the box?" But then, everybody's special, it is the individual him/herself who accepts the programming of Society & settles into Normality and ultimately wastes their life - & blames someone/thing else for it. Living and being NORMAL brings you a NORMAL life as an ORDINARY person - & the OBVIOUS truth is not only is a normal life boring, not only do you then not get respect or have power, not only are you usually miserable, sick, tired & broke, but a normal person's results and circumstances *in general* are usually pretty DISMAL. I guess that life is easier & simpler, but I just couldn't & can't accept it. The clincher for me is that the circumstances I was born into, to be blunt, suck in many ways over others around me. YET, essentially by rejecting the normal life set before me, NOT bowing to the obstacles, going for my passions and learning from+following the lead of the SUCCESSFUL people over the past few years, I am starting to see more & more results & opportunities in my life that are better than I even dared hope for. In the end, the more I've gotten out of my own way, the more things are going my way. I guess that was a bit of a rant, so I'll shut up & close with 3 very appropriate quotes: “If you want to live an ordinary life and be ordinary, look around you and do what THEY do; but if you want to live a life less ordinary, observe their actions and then go out and do the exact opposite.” - Earl Nightingale “The greater danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it.” – Michelangelo “Reasonable men adapt themselves to circumstances, whilst unreasonable men persist in attempting to adapt circumstances to themselves. That is why all progress depends upon the unreasonable man.” - George Bernard Shaw
    Posted By Jevaughn at 2008-04-17 00:48:22

I've been told most of my Life that I am not "Normal" and unfortunately bought into what was meant by that for some time until I finally came to realize that No One had the definition correct as AB-Normal was actually the shortened versiopn of A Bove Normal! :) Feeling Much better about That!
    Posted By Jim Zaccaria at 2008-04-17 06:09:39

Hey Gary! Awesome post! How do I get in touch with you about creating a partnership between you and someone else I know who's not "normal"? I think the two of you could definitely benefit one another. Thanks! Jonathan Kraft 1(970) 336-9182
    Posted By Jonathan Kraft at 2008-04-17 22:13:53

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