This thought is genious - The death of one is a tragedy. The death of millions - simple statistics.

What is the difference between the old woman with the 2-year old girl, who sells flowers on blv. Vitosha every evening after 22h on one side, and the millions of homeless people in the coptores in Mexico on the other side?

The difference is that she is one (with the kid - 2), and the others - millions. People notice her, but only until they pass the two-three-meters parameter of contrast between the shiny stores of Vitosha blv. and the Reality of Sofia. After that they forget about her. Which is quite an enviable quality, because it saves them a lot of things.

Why did I mention the millions of homeless people in Mexico (or India, or wherever, doesn't matter there are a lot of those)? Because the latter are the statistic, and the old woman with the child - the tragedy. The bad news is - both are the tragedy.

We are the problem - when we see something massive, we say to ourselves - so what, I guess it's normal. When we see one of "those normal things", but isolated on an expensive European (or is it that much European) shopping street, we again turn to ourselves saying - well, it's not only here, there are people like this on a lot of places… we make it massive, so that we make it easier to forget.

Maybe it's time to substitute the word "normal" with the word "massive" or "majority", because for the majority of us, the "normal" is what the majority of people do/are/aren't.

In relation to this, the majority of people are normal, because

• this is normal
• they are more than the insane ones (in Bulgarian, we have a term for "insane" which literally translated is "spiritually ill". And I really like it, because it doesn't limit the imagination in medical borders)
• they can lable people with "spiritually ill", or "poor/homeless" in the normal range of this notion (normal for the "normal people), etc.