"Normal"

When people speak of the “normal” a lot of times they speak of what they think to be civilized—acts of kindness (seeming altruism), declarations of purity, goals for the future, etc. A lot of times, what I noticed is that all of these are not the norm, but rather the rare.

We want the good to be the normal, however, I feel a lot of times that people act like animals. They don’t act good or human at all. We all have our secret acts of inhumanity. We all have our secret sins. And yet we all judge one another for what they do? We especially condemn those that have the courage to be up front with it.

I find all of this to be humorous. In no way am I condoning sin, but rather, pointing out that it’s common, and yet we’re busy judging other people while we are so filled with fault?

I think it goes back to what I was saying before—we emphasize others’ faults to distract us from our own. None of us want to believe we’re evil. None of us want to let people down, or be judged, or be thought ill of. Yet we all are at some point or another. I think we need to start accepting failure. Again, accepting, not condoning.

I think by accepting sin, and bringing it to light it makes it easier not to do. When no one knows that we are doing anything wrong, there’s no one to keep us accountable. We’re trapped in our secret, and usually our secret was started because we were sad, now the guilt makes us sadder so we go back to our guilty pleasure. Speaking about it, admitting to it, makes us free of it. Letting it out, lets it go. Letting it out brings freedom.

Let’s stop labeling stuff—stop labeling it as normal. We are scaring people into habitual patterns of sin. We are trapping people in fear to get help. Stop labeling, and let the people become free.