Relative Something

The difference between dysfunctional and normal is relative to how you frame it.

It makes sense that it applies to the usual, typical, or expected. How often have we heard a qualification about someone’s strange behavior being okay because they have always been that way; that is normal for them. But then the definition above goes on to reveal that when the word pertains to a person, it describes freedom from disorders, physical or mental. So, when someone is not free from making bad decisions, and they always do it, their behavior is normal for them, but it is not normal behavior for people in general.

Have you ever experienced the phenomena where a simple word you are reading or trying to write suddenly looks entirely foreign, like, “That can’t possibly be how it’s spelled?” Or, “Is that even a word!?” …Is that normal?

How come, during the work week, when I wake up, if I linger under those warm covers for just a moment, plotting how I will get a leg out and inspire the rest of me to follow, I can fall back to sleep in an instant, yet when I wake at approximately the same time on a weekend, my mind takes off on some amazing adventure-train of thought at record pace, leaving sleep behind in the distance? That’s normal for me, but is it normal?

Maybe I’ll go see if I can get the cat’s opinion on that.