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[abnormalcalm]

What do you think normal means?

[responses being taken online or in person; Nagi is sitting at a table with her laptop, snacking on french fries and nursing a Diet Coke]

((ooc: Muse is exhausted but will pick up threads tomorrow. Mingling is awesome.))

Comments

[notmakingout]

Hmm. Bein' the same as most o' the people or things around. Depends a lot on yer frame of reference, I'd say.

[abnormalcalm]

You mean you see it as relative?

[notmakingout]

O'course, it has ta be. It's a relative term.

[abnormalcalm]

Not everyone would automatically think of 'frames of reference' right off the bat. They only think about what's normal for them.

[notmakingout]

Heh, maybe. But even what's normal for one person can be different dependin', right?

[abnormalcalm]

Of course. Doesn't mean everyone thinks to that degree, though. One guy I asked answered, "hamburgers and capitalism."

[notmakingout]

...Uh-huh. Well, some people should learn ta use their brains a little more before answerin' a question like that.

[abnormalcalm]

Yeah. I don't think he quite grasped the point of the question.

[notmakingout]

So why're you askin'?

[abnormalcalm]

The topic interests me now and then. Reminds me of my dad.

[notmakingout]

Bit of a philosopher or somethin', was he?

[abnormalcalm]

He was a famous writer.

[notmakingout]

Sounds like an interestin' guy.

[abnormalcalm]

I didn't know too much about him before he died. What you said's part of the basic gist I've heard, though.

[notmakingout]

Sorry ta hear that. He write anythin' insightful about bein' normal?

[abnormalcalm]

Eh, it's been about eight, nine years now.

[dismissive handwave to show it doesn't bother her]

I don't really read his work, but he did once tell me that being normal means to abandon change.