What Becomes Normal? And this made me think about how much of what we call normal might come from this kind of process. Everyone has some reference for what is right and wrong, what is normal and abnormal, what is desirable and undesirable. But where did that reference come from? Some of it comes from biology. Some from childhood. Some from the people around us. Some from what society has already decided. Some from our own experiences. And then we add our interpretation to all of it. But the same society that gave us these ideas is also the society we are part of. So when we express our own ideas, we are also adding something back into that same environment. Someone experiences something. They form an interpretation. They express it. Someone else sees it and thinks, "This is also how I feel." They adopt it. Then they behave differently because of it. And now their behaviour becomes part of someone else's environment. So the process does not really stop with the pe...