What is Normal?

Yes, I know. We really don’t want to hear this year’s cliche again – “the new normal”! It’s such an annoying phrase. The post-COVID world is standing back in the shadows, refusing to step out just yet. There’s a battle brewing between those that hanker after all that they have lost, and those that realise that a lot of what we have lost was slowly destroying us and the planet. The quest for eternal growth, how long will it be before we realise that that is an idea that is based on a delusion that grasps after things that don’t even bring us true happiness. 

Where does normal live? What does it look like? Is it constantly shifting? Do we even want normal? What about living in an adaptive life that is constantly shifting to a changing context that we will never understand. Being adaptive, flexing and looking for the positive in everything that we encounter. Not like a deluded fool who can’t see the brick wall as they hit the accelerator pedal. Not like that! Like someone who can see that we are part of something bigger than ourselves. We can’t make decisions without being aware of the bigger picture. We need to look at ourselves as co-exisiting and interdependent. That is the route to the new way of doing things. It’s not normal, it won’t feel comfortable. But somehow we need to adapt, to shift to different circumstances. 

The new existence, awake to change and constantly looking for ways to reach out and connect, to support and to help.