Normality...

Don't think for one second that I am traveling pointlessly back to my disscusion of "average." What I am speaking about now is completely different and infinitely more powerful. The normality of a person's life is priceless to them. A family may not be rich, but they pay their normal ammount of bills. A person may not be brilliant, but at least they don't have a learning disability. A person may not have a car, but at least they can pay for a bus pass. A person may not be an athlete, but at least they have a body that functions correctly. It depends on the person, how they define normality. We all look at eachother and judge based on our view of normality. It's a changing and ever amorphous term. It's shelf life is ephemral and we do not know how desperately we cling to it. "You don't know what you had till it's gone," I'm not sure who said that but it certainly applies to this conversation. When the bank forcloses, the rutine cancer test comes back positive, or the child is expelled depending on the situation these may be things that shake your perception of "normal." The thing is....things never go back to the way they were. We tend to think in a, "they have meds for that," mentality. Sure something bad might happen, but we have an emergency fund. So what will these people do when their fiance has a stroke and will never speak or move their left side again? What will they do when the house is gone, and the children are angry? I beg myself, don't let me get swept up by this blindness for the stablity of normality. Help me to appriciate every second of it, every day.