Normal Life

The term normal is to say something or someone is conforming to the standard or the common type; usual; not abnormal; regular; natural. Other dictionary says conforming with or constituting a norm or standard or level or type or social norm. The word talks about standard.

When I read the Ecclesiastes said "All is meaningless", I ponder what I have been doing till this second. The sentence is not a new to me, in fact I wrote this statement on the first page of my Bachelor's thesis. Stories of life that I see from my friends are... they go to school, try to be the best of the best, go to good uni, graduate, find a good job, find a wife/husband, have kids, choose best school for the kids, and then the kids will go to school too, try to be the best of of the best too, go to good uni too, graduate, find a good job too... and all over again and all over again.

So they will stick to the ground and basic rule in finding job, finding school, finding mates, choosing place to live. Many of them let go of their dream job or even their dream girl/boy to stick to this, so called, commonly most acceptable basic society/family rules or code of conduct.

Sounds pretty sucks right? I don’t know about other countries but I think 80% of Indonesian Chinese call for this as a good and successful life. It is conforming to the standard of common type and social norm. So, good and successful life is a normal life. Well, is it? In general extreme these people, they are not good singers, not good swimmers, don't know how to smoke, etc. They don’t know how to do the “Ho Ryu Ken” in Street Fighter or don’t know who is Akira Toriyama or Naoko Takeuchi.. . Those examples above are very extreme to a certain extent but what I am trying to say is, it seems they are too busy with achieving the good/successful life until they are not fun anymore.

Some of them are even worse, they act like they are having fun, they thought they are having fun or they are fun. In the end, when they are challenged to do something different, they choose to go back to their good and successful life. What is wrong with living a normal life? Nothing’s wrong with that, really.. nothing’s wrong! They live by the examples and norms set by their parents and society. This normal life has been tested for hundreds of year and proven to bring stability in life. Again, nothing’s wrong!! I just feel something is missing but I am not sure what it is.

Ending my comment on normal life, it is nice to know someone who is honest. Someone who has a might to admit and follows his/her honesty. Hmmm.. maybe that’s why sometimes I feel sorry for people who betray their honesty and pretend to enjoy the, so called, normal life. They have big dreams but they are too afraid to chase them. I wonder whether they enjoy their live.