Normal People
You know how it’s sometimes difficult to really live in a moment? Tough to really appreciate where you are, what you’re doing, how you’re spending that exact moment?
Look at this picture. This student is doing an assignment I gave him in class. What’s going on in his mind? I have no idea. He could be thinking about his family at home, how school is boring, about some girl he wants to make out with or how awesome 50 cent is. What if he’s wondering about that girl on the cover of his notebook?
If he was, he might be thinking, “she’s probably in America. Man, that’s gotta be awesome there. Nice days, lots of rain, lots of fun people, good schools… I bet 50 knows her. Yeah, she’s got it made.”
If that girl was real… picture a pretty girl going running on a nice day... you think she’d be thinking the same thing? You think she’s thinking, “man, America is awesome, we have lots of rain, jobs, education, I’m from the same place as cool people like 50 cent? Life is great.”
Nah, nobody does that. The girl in the picture, if she was real, might be thinking… “America is too stressful, I wish I could go to some island in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean to get away from this mess. Away from my 60-hour job, away from the traffic, the competition, the crap on TV… okay, forget about it, let’s just focus on running off that hot pocket I had for lunch, ah, my thighs are as fat as hams. Mmm, ham.”
Or she could be perfectly happy and enjoying the nice day. The student could also be focusing on his assignment, narrowing on his gameplan to become a successful architect one day. We will never know.
A bus driver told me one day, “the only normal people are the ones you don’t know.”
On the surface, normal people seem to have their shit together: they look like understand the opportunities before them, understand the importance of drafting if you want to be an architect, recognizing how lucky they are to be able to run on a beautiful sunny day without a thing to worry about.
It ain’t easy to be normal. It ain’t easy to appreciate where you are at any given moment. Our mind wanders because we’re human, because we’re too lazy or too stressed to appreciate what it feels like to be alive.
The good thing is, is that the moment is always there. As long as we’re alive, we’ll have that chance to appreciate where we are. It’s as if our life is waiting for us to stop looking at our watch or fantasizing about what’s on the cover of our notebook and tune in to our own station.
If only it were that easy.
Look at this picture. This student is doing an assignment I gave him in class. What’s going on in his mind? I have no idea. He could be thinking about his family at home, how school is boring, about some girl he wants to make out with or how awesome 50 cent is. What if he’s wondering about that girl on the cover of his notebook?
If he was, he might be thinking, “she’s probably in America. Man, that’s gotta be awesome there. Nice days, lots of rain, lots of fun people, good schools… I bet 50 knows her. Yeah, she’s got it made.”
If that girl was real… picture a pretty girl going running on a nice day... you think she’d be thinking the same thing? You think she’s thinking, “man, America is awesome, we have lots of rain, jobs, education, I’m from the same place as cool people like 50 cent? Life is great.”
Nah, nobody does that. The girl in the picture, if she was real, might be thinking… “America is too stressful, I wish I could go to some island in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean to get away from this mess. Away from my 60-hour job, away from the traffic, the competition, the crap on TV… okay, forget about it, let’s just focus on running off that hot pocket I had for lunch, ah, my thighs are as fat as hams. Mmm, ham.”
Or she could be perfectly happy and enjoying the nice day. The student could also be focusing on his assignment, narrowing on his gameplan to become a successful architect one day. We will never know.
A bus driver told me one day, “the only normal people are the ones you don’t know.”
On the surface, normal people seem to have their shit together: they look like understand the opportunities before them, understand the importance of drafting if you want to be an architect, recognizing how lucky they are to be able to run on a beautiful sunny day without a thing to worry about.
It ain’t easy to be normal. It ain’t easy to appreciate where you are at any given moment. Our mind wanders because we’re human, because we’re too lazy or too stressed to appreciate what it feels like to be alive.
The good thing is, is that the moment is always there. As long as we’re alive, we’ll have that chance to appreciate where we are. It’s as if our life is waiting for us to stop looking at our watch or fantasizing about what’s on the cover of our notebook and tune in to our own station.
If only it were that easy.
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