The Difference Between Average and Normal

I’ve been out for almost the entire month, and that was because my internet connection was missing for quite a while. i just hink, “the average person surfs at least five hours a week, but it’s normal for a student like me to spend more time thinking that surfing the web.” so what’s up, after my hiber? well, just life on its course. plainly normal going. and i’m not here to speak of nonesense (oh no no no although the average paranormal blogger does that) because i’m just, well, giving the message out from the voice in me.
first of all, what i’ve been thinking about is the SHEER difference between NORMAL and AVERAGE. ah yeah, those two words. i’m sure you’d agree, but they have differences, too. being average is a state of being accepted, mostly like others in a particular group. unlike in being normal, there is a sort of a standard and boundary being talked about. being average– well it just means that you are there, right in the middle, but being normal is being in the level of a certain group, which can either go up or down in the given scale. so it means you can be averagely not normal. but what’s that? let me help you with these examples.

1. Freaks are not normal. An average freak has green hair and eats expired pizza.

2. i’m a normal person, with a pair of legs and ten fingers and two eyes but my I.Q. isn’t just on the average.

3. I’m an average student–i mean i think calculus is not important at all–yet they say i’m not normal cause i have some sort of uniqueness with the oddity in it.

4. I’m normally average, not averagely normal.

5. It’s not normal to desire of being simply average for the average desires to be normal.

now tell me these doesn’t have any logic. haha.

Sun After the Rain

I just know–we all know–that after the rain comes the sun. I’m quite certain that everyone’s now okay since the terrible typhoon recently, or shall i say, the problems we meet in our life.

Life is just like this: it has a natural course which sometimes slants to another direction because of the unexpected suprises life itself brings, may this be a good or bad surprise, and flows back to the natural course later. At one point we are glad because somehow, life has some challenge to offer, some storm to rock us out, and after that suprise, life’s back to the natural course. That natural course i’m speaking of is the usual routine which bores the freak in all of us. Ever had times when you want to “escape” and be on the road you want, just be free, away from reality and all things that really matter? That’s what life truly is–unfair, unforgiving and whatever you can’t have is what you possibly want.

That is the sun after the rain, the natural course of life we trash and take for granted. We hate the usual day we have (for example needing to study Calculus every schoolday for my part) and when a trouble comes in (some accusations or even lawsuits) we would much rather come back to the natural course. How complicated life is, i just can’t measure it up. But if i were to compare which meaning is harder to define, if it’s reality or life, of course that’d be reality. Life is bounded by realities and misconceptions. Sometimes the reality we think of is actually a misconception or a false belief rather, and the bitter part is we believed it before we realize it’s actually false. So much for being so fictitious, huh?

I still have not found the Sun and the Rain in my life. I’m even thinking about what life really has to offer me. It’s like everyday i’m bounded by suppressed questions in the back of my head. I don’t know if i’m moving too fast or the world is a little too slow. Whatever that is, i just wait for the next slant in the course of my life, be it in the dangerous or safe side of reality.

Storm to Earth, Wrath to Mankind

Just dropped by here. As far as the whole world might be concerned, the Philippine country was just hit by back-to-back typhoons, namely Ondoy and Pepeng. Ondoy hit Metro Manila and Southern Luzon, leaving more than 500 people dead and Pepeng hit Eastern and Northern Luzon leaving Isabela flooded and a bunch of electric poles down, thereby causing power interruption for already 4 days as of this hour.

And now as i am seated in my bed trying not to face my window, i’m well aware of what hell is happening outside. My town is very gray, all the trees are a wreck and the coconut trees keep on dancing. Some places are still flooded and many are in a dilemma. The hard thing is that despite the hard weather, i still have to attend school. That’s 19 kms of travel while the rains and winds are rageous. And when the letter of suspension came to our classroom, only an hour and a half of school hours remain. May God bless the whole administration. Sigh.

I try not to think that this is God’s wrath. Just lately, Indonesia was shaken by an earthquake that took hundreds of lives. In my country, lots of lives were ended. And my phone isn’t still repaired. Sigh. It’s very difficult to simply think this is nature’s revenge to the human race. Think of the dead people and ruined households, children of innocence who died because of this tragedy by nature. But is it nature who killed man, or was it man who caused destruction? Would anything be at least less tragic, if Man took better care of nature? It is true that these are nothing but natural occurances. But if there were enough trees to hold the soil, if Manila wasn’t such a concrete city, then possibly the roads won’t just turn into a 12ft. pool. Isn’t it?

I just miss the sun, maybe. I miss mornings on my way to my classroom and face the sun and let her rays kiss my face.

And i am on my way to writing a novel. Hehe however i am not making a promise to finish a 20000-word piece of writing. Wish things get better for the sake of all humanity. Godbless.