What is normal?

Lakshmi Thampi
2 min readAug 1, 2023

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We perceive certain situations or conditions to be normal. That becomes a habit of being too. So when there is a variation it is either rejected by the system as some headache, irritation, or even the body shutting down with an illness.

I want you to be Normal, is what my loved ones used to tell me when I was disturbed or disranged. Everything is going to be normal and as before, is what I heard quite often. I know they are saying this with my best interest in mind or is it theirs? But in that disturbed and incomprehensible state, I couldn't take those words with compliance. Do I want to get back to the before was my biggest question. If I had enjoyed that “before” why did this state transpire? So is the “before” state that I want for myself. Maybe for the world, that is the best they knew of me and that is what they have habituated in seeing me as. I knew from the core that it was not the best of me. I was denying certain expressions of mine may be due to the habit of being so or because of certain conditioning of having perceived so.

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All of us should be allowed to just be. Why allowed? Who are we to allow? That is the basic, isn't it?

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Lakshmi Thampi
Lakshmi Thampi

Written by Lakshmi Thampi

Digital contributor @teknospire @hundred4future. Enthu of Photography, Food and Movement. Writes on mind, digital marketing, travel & relationships for clarity

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