MLMM – Normal

Respond to this Friday Faithfuls challenge by writing about what you feel is normal, typical, appropriate, or acceptable, or if you always try to be normal so that you can fit in with the crowd, or if you think it is good to be yourself and follow your own path. 

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I never thought of myself as normal. I didn’t fit in—too shy, too skinny, too harbored by my parents, and then I was married, had children and thought okay, normal. I tried to be a better than normal wife and mother.

And all these years later I’m trying to be a new version of normal. Having this blog, writing anything I want, no matter how weird it may seem to others is my new normal. Thank you all for supporting me in that!

Today I’m still reeling from the election, still very upset thinking of people who are not white like me, don’t have an income that provides basic needs, and support of a loving family. What is going to happen to them? I fear for the women and girls in my family. I fear for the less privileged. Just plain sad and fearful. Is that going to be the new normal? After many changes in my lifetime, I feel this will be the most devastating.

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Normal