Calm down! I’m not going to do anything stupid!
I will do a double feature for the Daily Prompts. I need a little break from movie reviews today but it will resume tomorrow. Its been a bit of the worrisome and stressful days for me and I’m thinking maybe (even more) writing will do me some good.
Daily Prompt (last week’s): Is being “normal” — whatever that means to you — a good thing, or a bad thing? Neither? Photographers, artists, poets: show us EVERYDAY.
For the photographers showing everyday, I did two challenges in the past year in regards to that. One is a Weekly photo challenge for Everyday life back in September 2012 (click HERE to see it) and one is the phoneography challenge from earlier this year (HERE). Both reflect my everyday normal life very much!
Being “normal” is a great thing most of the time but how many of us really believe that we are? Maybe compared to others such as friends, families, acquaintances, we may not feel normal because of our differences. Most days, especially in movie discussions, I think I’m just plain weird. I like weird things and feel like I have a abnormal lifestyle, especially after I had my health issues. Normal to me is the way we live life, the everybodies of the society. We are all different but our normal is our routine. No day is exactly the same and its the little things you see, experience and breath and live through, big or little that make each and every day worth it and appreciated. Living in the moment or just being grateful for what we have. We do that when we are being normal.
Normal will seem like being average. Is that really a bad thing though? There will always be times when reality slaps us in the face with the substantial need for certain things to progress and succeed (whatever that is) linked to money but if we had everything, then where is the satisfaction of earning your first little gadget. I remembered saving up for my Nintendo DS Lite, my first ever console that I owned. Its falling apart now but still I don’t want to give it up till I have to. Treasuring what we have and not thinking about all we don’t have.
Being normal lets me enjoy my family, my loved ones, my pets, the nature every single day with a smile on my face 🙂
Whats wrong with being normal? We can still be awesome in our own way and see even more wonderful things in the process plus we get to realize how lucky we are.
Tuesday’s Daily Prompt: What’s the biggest risk you’d like to take — but haven’t been able to? What would have to happen to make you comfortable taking it? Photographers, artists, poets: show us JUMP.
Risk…
I’m not really a person to associate with risk. Thats one of the reasons I learned early on in my university that finance wasn’t really my thing so I switched out into another field in business school. Even now, when helping manage investments, I get worried. I like to associate life with being safe and stable. Its the feeling of security. Having oodles of money never really made me feel that it was going to make me feel secure, so I guess thats not it.
I’ve been talking about starting a business eventually. Its one of my lifelong dreams to eventually be able to do that. To take that risk at some point in my life would mean that I would have a portion of dispensable cash that I can put in. That would possibly be the choice of the biggest risk. At this point, its finding the business (well, I have an idea of what I want to do) and the start-up money. However, when I do get the opportunity, starting a business is still a huge risk. Its putting a lot of things in life on the line. What would have to happy to make it comfortable for me to take it would be to feel confident that I could do a good job. I know I have perseverance and I know that I will stay motivated to succeed once I step out of my comfort zone and then readapt to a new comfort zone. Does that even make any sense?
Thats my risk that I’ve been holding back on.
We all can dream and one day step out to try it out when the time is right. We all make decisions and take some sizeable amount of risks in life. We never can see whats ahead of us and just living life and making those lifelong decisions is a risk with unknown outcomes. Sometimes, we really might as well jump…
Talking about that, life has taken me and my boyfriend into one of those paths due to our jobs. Let’s hope this change will be for the better. We’re sizing up the positives and managing with what we have. Taking it day by day! One day, we will get to where we want to be in the future as long as we work together! Just as he has chosen to make changes and take risks to get us closer to our goals, I’m hard at work both mentally and physically to get everything together in my life.
Great things are ahead! At least we can work as hard as we can to try to make it that way! 🙂
Dr. Seuss rules! Brings me confidence and encouragement and happiness! 🙂
On the side note, does being risky make me not normal anymore? I think its normal, no? Whats “normal” to you? Whats the biggest risk you haven’t taken yet?
Tranquil Dreams 