Normality in an insane world

You ever wonder whats normal.
Is normal something you do, or something you are, or both.
If I normally get up and put my socks on my head, its that normal?
If I decide to wear green when everyone is wearing blue, is that normal?
And Do I want to be normal?

Life is a series of cogs in the machine of time.
every day the same things happen.
The world turns.
We wake, we dress, we eat, we work, we eat and we sleep.
Every day we greet the dawn with a hope that something different will happen to change what we do, when all we have to do is be different.
Who defines what we have to do to be normal.
Our parents?
Who grew up in a world without computers, without more than two channels on TV, without the opportunity to travel the world.
It was our ancestors who defined normal.
You parents follow what there parents did, and so on backwards in time.
At the start of the chain there is a caveman, who woke up, put on his furs, ate his Mammoth breakfast, went hunting, came home and ate some more then slept.

So why do we define normal by the past standards, why are so many people sheep and not shepherds.
Why do so few lead and so many follow.

What would it take for the world to wear green on a blue day, so that the people wearing Blue are the odd ones out.

Why do we allow our future to be controlled by the past.
Is that normal?

If so I don't want to be normal any more.
Most people who know me will shout out at this point "You`re not Normal Fester"
But I am.
I am normal to myself.
I don't try to extend myself enough beyond what I know.
I don't try hard enough to break the mold.
I don't lead enough.
My insanity is Normal.

In a world where the banks run out of money, I am normal.
In a world where people starve on one side of the world while other drop uneaten
food into the bin, I am normal.
In a world where it is easier to roll over in bed that actually wake up and face the facts of life, I am normal.
In a world where people would rather not get involved, I am normal.

I want to be a different normal.
I want to live in a world where people speak to strangers. Who smile and are welcoming to people they haven't met before.
I want to live in a world where I would rather spend my money saving a life that buying the latest gadget or gismo.
I want to live in a world where I am proud to had it over to my children to play in rather than keeping them shut inside where its safe.
I want to live in a world where I know the enemy, and I can work to make them my friend.

I want to be me.
and be proud of what I have accomplished.
I don't want to be Normal in an insane world.
Or insane in a normal one.

I want to be Normal in a Normal world where everyone is responsible for the actions they make and do.

Given the chance.
Do you want to be normal?