Normal.

The dictionary defines normal as conforming to the usual standard, type, or custom.

So based on that definition, in order for something to be "normal" it must conform to a certain standard or custom. If that's so, does normality even exist among us? In a place such as America, full of people with different beliefs, heritages, religions, and lifestyles, can normality even be accomplished?

For example, let's take a person who has roof over their head, a warm bed at night, and food to eat. How would that person feel if they were to travel to a place such as Northern Uganda, where houses are made of mud bricks, beds are cots made with hay, and young children are being drafted into wars with no choice whether to go or stay. Would that person consider Uganda's condition "normal"? What if a child from Uganda was to travel to America and view our lifestyles. Would that child consider us "normal"?

Now let's explore another side to the argument. As I recently stated, the dictionary states normal as conforming to the usual standard, type, or custom. As I also stated, normality is impossible to reach with so many different beliefs around the world. But, what if we say the usual standard, type, or custom that defines normality, is to not be normal. If that's the case, then everyone in the world would be normal. If everyones not normal, and we all conform to that, then we all are normal, because we conform to a certain standard, that is, to not be normal.

The bottom line: Nothing is normal, but yet, everything is normal. Normality contradicts itself. Normality cancels itself.

Normality never has existed, doesn't exist, and never will exist. It's normal for normality not to exist.

But, we're all normal.

Normality is what your mind makes it.