Being “normal” is a good thing. If you told this to anyone, be it a high school student applying to college, a worker vying for a promotion, or a Nobel Peace Prize winner accepting an award, you would probably be seen as odd, or maybe even laughed at.
As a whole, individuals are told to excel in their lives in order to make them mean something. Society is the culprit of this, and if we look back on what society has dictated to us in the past, we can see that cultural expectations are fickle creatures — one would not, for example, go out in public today wearing a pink poodle skirt and expect to be seen as the height of fashion, since we, as a society, have decided that poodle skirts are no longer en vogue.
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