Normal is getting dressed in clothes that you buy for work and driving through traffic in a car that you are still paying for - in order to get to the job you need to pay for the clothes and the car, and the house you leave vacant all day so you can afford to live in it. Ellen Goodman
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Normal is getting dressed in clothes that you buy for work and driving through traffic in a car that you are still paying for - in order to get to the job you need to pay for the clothes and the car, and the house you leave vacant all day so you can afford to live in it. It is a quote that really captures how people view things. They judge themselves by their current situation and place their vision of reality through limited lenses. We all view life through a filter, whether it be dark glasses or sunglasses.

In this metaphor, he is saying normal is wearing clothes from Walmart where you have to buy them outright because you have no money to pay for them or pay for gas or insurance or maintenance on your car. Normal is being a mom working a dead-end job just to be able to afford gas in your SUV so you can drive twenty minutes each way to work and back after picking your child up from school each day. This opinion sounds harsh but it does give us an idea of how horrible most people’s lives really are.

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