Defining 'Normal'...

What IS normal anyway? Does anyone actually know for sure? Statistics are restricted by question, if you're attempting to define normal by question, you're limiting the answer by application and definition - Literal/Figurative.

We naturally check for confirmation - how many times have you said or heard someone else's reply begin with, "Oh, yes, I do that too!" after which they may give more personal and specific information, "but I like to make sure that the weather forecast is good for the rest of the day"

(Clever thinks about her reply before saying), "Mmmm, I have done that occasionally myself".

Now, what I find interesting at this point is something I'll explain later. For now, there's a conversation ongoing that I've introduced after the initial comment, which was: "I like to wash the bed linen when I know I'll be able to get it dried outside, and I like to hang it out first thing."

What's normal to me is to think deeply into  potentials, suggestions, hints - when they interest me. I may not appear to be paying attention sometimes, that maybe because I'm concentrating. So when Clever says,  "I like to wash the bed linen when I know I'll be able to get it dried outside, and I like to hang it out first thing." - I know exactly what she means and why it makes perfect sense to me. So when the reply "Oh, yes, I do that too!" I'm hearing confirmation of it, these two have a similarity. Something shared. The next comment, "but I like to make sure that the weather forecast is good for the rest of the day" refines it. Clever's answer, "Mmmm, I have done that occasionally myself". tells me lots of things, including another similarity with reservations and limits.

But if you were to ask me, what's normal, I'd say....

What's normal to me is to be aware of the good things that life offers and imagine what that involves, inclusive of the associated feelings, deeper awareness and potential. To imagine what the best and worst case scenarios would involve and select accordingly.

What's also normal is for that to extend as a protective guidance geared and directed to my own children.

Also normal to have chosen a legacy.