It is not Normal
We are leaving so much health and life unrealized because of "normal" behavior
This is a challenge to raise a standard in opposition to the numbing drift of modern life. This is a call back to reality, responsibility, and personally experienced life vitality.
Because…
It’s not normal to need a cocktail of medications—antidepressants, anti-anxiety pills, stimulants, and sedatives—just to function.
It’s not normal to require an extender just to buckle our airplane seatbelt.
It’s not normal to spend every spare minute scrolling through your phone.
It’s not normal to live more online than we do in real life.
It’s not normal to show up to work but barely show up for the work.
It’s not normal to go through life without expression—numb, flat, zoned out.
It’s not normal to stop smiling.
It’s not normal to dread our job.
It’s not normal to expect others to clean up after us.
To toss our garbage on the ground and assume someone else will deal with it.
It’s not normal to crawl physically and mentally into eternity.
It’s not normal to stew in jealousy, envy, and bitterness—
To lash out at others just because they don’t do things our way.
It’s not normal to eat cereal for breakfast and call that nourishment.
It’s not normal to use ibuprofen and Tylenol when illness strikes.
It’s not normal to eat whatever our emotions crave and call it intuitive.
It’s not normal to be coddled.
To get our way all the time.
To believe we are the source of life.
It’s not normal to care more about being right than about seeking the truth.
It’s not normal to spend 12 years in grade school just to get into another four years of more school, just to end up in a job we don’t like, with debt we can’t pay.
It’s not normal to take out a loan and then expect someone else to cover repay it.
It’s not normal to drink soda every day.
To consume corn syrup, hydrogenated oils, processed soy, and factory-made food as if that’s human fuel.
It’s not normal to be 50, 75, 100 pounds over fat.
It’s not normal to tear down others for a living.
It’s not normal to survive until the weekend.
It’s not normal to eat food made by machines, preserved by chemicals, and packaged in plastic.
It’s not normal to spray our lawn, our garden, our food—with poison—so it all looks perfect.
Monocropping is not normal.
Grass that looks like a golf course? That’s not nature and that is poison with a purpose.
A green carpet of disease promotion.
It’s not normal to have low libido, erectile dysfunction, apathy, and no motivation.
It’s not normal for men to have testosterone levels in the 100s or 200s—
That’s not aging, that’s dysfunction.
It’s not normal to feel stiff, inflamed, or arthritic by middle age.
It’s not normal to sit all day at a desk, commute home, eat a processed dinner, watch TV, go to bed—And then wake up and do it all again.
The path that’s been paved by industrialized culture—the one lined with pills, plastic, processed food, and passivity—leads to decay.
Just because something is common doesn’t mean it’s normal.
Just because it’s accepted doesn’t mean it’s ideal, or Godly for that matter.
Initially, there will be a strong head wind, the current will seem too strong to overcome. This is why we accumulate health. One decision, one day, one meal, one purchase shift at a time. The next thing you know, your normal is so invigorated, so locked in that your life begins pulling your community to higher ground.
We don’t have to settle for what’s common. Why not reclaim the awesomeness that is having been created human?