I just want to be normal

Most of us aspire to something beyond ‘normal’.

There’s a sense in which normal is equated with average or boring so a lot of the time we shun the idea of being simply normal. Yesterday afternoon I was more than happy to be normal.

A couple of days ago I dropped into a pathology clinic for a blood test. I’m never keen to have sharp metal spikes driven into my arms but I put up with it when necessary. The test was simply to check for a number of things such as cholesterol levels, diabetes and a few other bits and pieces.

I visited my doctor for the results and a check up yesterday afternoon and apart from a cholesterol level which is on the border of being high, everything was ‘normal’. In fact, when the doctor got to my Prostate Specific Antigen test he said it was ‘very normal’. With a history of prostate cancer in my family I was more than pleased to hear that my readings are very good in that area.

Most of the time I want to be more than normal but sometimes normal is the most wonderful word of all.

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