What’s normal anyway…
The other day I was at my parent’s house and came across a book I hadn’t seen in years called “Mama, Get The Hammer There’s a Fly on Papa’s Head!” by Barbara Johnson. If you ever need to just laugh when things are crappy or even when they aren’t then she is a great author to read. Her books are filled with all kinds of stories, quotes and sayings. She has one that I love about what is normal- “Normal is a setting on the dryer”. I love this one because there have been so many times, with all that I have been dealing with, that I have thought or said “I wish I could just be normal again”. I know that’s not an uncommon feeling and that it is not just something that people who are dealing with mental health issues feel. Whenever I start feeling like that and I remember that quote I remind myself that I am still me. Yes I may have too deal each day with taking medicine and other things that go along with taking care of my mental health but it doesn’t take away from who I am. I’m still intelligent, creative, compassionate and a lover of God which are all the things I was before I started down this path.
