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[The December Days theme this year is "Things I Used To Fully Believe About Myself." Some of these things might be familiar, some of them might be things you still believe about yourself, and some of them may be painful and traumatic for you based on your own beliefs and memories. The nice thing about text is that you can step away from it at any point and I won't know.]
#7: "It Is Possible To Be Normal."
Apparently, the RNG likes themes, even though I've been putting those themes well away from each other on the list just to try and avoid this situation.
We covered one of the prongs of Mount Normal in the last post. Admittedly, that one is the despair route, the one that encourages giving up, not just on trying to ascend Mount Normal, but on everything else, as well. The Broken route says that self-improvement is impossible and the issues that are present are insurmountable. This route is more hopeful, in that it at least takes the idea that Mount Normal can be summited and there's a way to do so.
( At what cost? )
This one is no longer a believed-fully item because, as you can see, it has an extremely faulty premise. The mere belief that there is such a thing as "normal" to achieve creates a laundry list of problems by itself, and those problems then make the question of whether "normal" is desirable or achievable important, because if there's a shared definition of what normal is (not always guaranteed), there's a lot of "normal" that's actively harmful to the people who are trying to either achieve it or impose it on others.
And yet, even if I am not the sun or the air, I am human and I would like to be loved, just like everybody else does. To have the frame moved sufficiently, expanded sufficiently, that there no longer exists the ability for any one group to capture it, declare themselves "normal" and have the power to impose their definition on others. That, instead, we have to negotiate our own morals and the morals and ethics that make a functional society composed of millions of definitions of what's normal and where those millions can find common ground, compromises, and a shared desire to take care of each other and make sure everyone is happy, safe, and fulfilled in what they do.
So I suppose whether or not this is one that's fully-believed depends on what your definition of normal is.
#7: "It Is Possible To Be Normal."
Apparently, the RNG likes themes, even though I've been putting those themes well away from each other on the list just to try and avoid this situation.
We covered one of the prongs of Mount Normal in the last post. Admittedly, that one is the despair route, the one that encourages giving up, not just on trying to ascend Mount Normal, but on everything else, as well. The Broken route says that self-improvement is impossible and the issues that are present are insurmountable. This route is more hopeful, in that it at least takes the idea that Mount Normal can be summited and there's a way to do so.
( At what cost? )
This one is no longer a believed-fully item because, as you can see, it has an extremely faulty premise. The mere belief that there is such a thing as "normal" to achieve creates a laundry list of problems by itself, and those problems then make the question of whether "normal" is desirable or achievable important, because if there's a shared definition of what normal is (not always guaranteed), there's a lot of "normal" that's actively harmful to the people who are trying to either achieve it or impose it on others.
And yet, even if I am not the sun or the air, I am human and I would like to be loved, just like everybody else does. To have the frame moved sufficiently, expanded sufficiently, that there no longer exists the ability for any one group to capture it, declare themselves "normal" and have the power to impose their definition on others. That, instead, we have to negotiate our own morals and the morals and ethics that make a functional society composed of millions of definitions of what's normal and where those millions can find common ground, compromises, and a shared desire to take care of each other and make sure everyone is happy, safe, and fulfilled in what they do.
So I suppose whether or not this is one that's fully-believed depends on what your definition of normal is.
