Beauty in Variety

Ever so often one is reminded of a truth so true that it seems it’s been hiding in plain sight. There is no such thing as a ‘normal’ family.

This past festive season it dawned on me (again) that every single family has its own set of oddities to accommodate. That every family consists of some normal,
some normal looking, some strange, some stranger looking and some really weird people. With really interesting ideas.

Some are dealing with mental conditions, others with broken legs or dreams and here and there are those strange ones with an insatiable desire for adrenalin and sports. Some have stable jobs but dress up in diapers when no one’s looking. Others may be really REALLY well behaved but kick the dog when it’s dark. And somehow, they all make up families. Somehow, by hook or by crook, space is made for each and every one of us on the spectrum of oddity. Within our families. And i guess…. that’s it: the normal is….that we’re all, not at all really… ‘normal’.