Normality

When ten thousand years of social evolution trumps five hundred million years of natural evolution. When survival isn't for the fittest, strongest, smartest or any other “est” for that matter, maybe it’s for the "averagest"!

When diversity is scary, and the different is odd, when it’s easier to stereotype a fellow human as a weirdo or a psycho than to endorse him.

When the search of security dumps the search for truth. When faith is rationalized, piety is standardized, charity is institutionalized, and spirituality comes with a manual. When wars are waged to defend a relative perspective on the ultimate. When people are enslaved by miracle, mystery and authority, and when tradition becomes the new circumcision.

When the search for a degree beats the thirst for knowledge, textbooks become king, multiple choice exams are the trend. All that matters is a tick in a box.

When Barbie sets the standard for beauty, Beckham is Mr. perfect., and a black guy symbolizes dumb thugs. When a tall guy suffers on a plane, and when nobody admires the inner beauty of a fat girl.

Normality, another way to neutralize your threat, to fit you in a curve, to predict your next move, to eliminate your edge, to wipe your print and to turn you into a number, a mere second on history’s trajectory towards it's conclusion.

You know what, screw being normal. Be eccentric, be radical, be weird, be awesome, be genuine, be original, be a geek. Be a Francis, a Bonhoeffer, a Beethoven, a Gandhi, a Gibran, a Hawkins or a Socrates.

I know it sounds like a script from a cheesy movie, but that's because the so called normal people has abused the words just to build their security mansions.

Be you, natural but never normal