Being normal is also a privilege.

Many people spend their entire lives chasing after the extraordinary: a romantic, fantastical love like in movies, a successful career with luxury cars and private jets like a CEO, a life surrounded by drama to feel important… One day, they will surely realize that living an ordinary life is already the greatest privilege bestowed upon them by nature. Living an ordinary life, it sounds… ordinary, but not everyone gets to experience it.

There's a great saying: The world is divided into two types of people: those who are privileged enough to live ordinary lives, and those who are forced to become extraordinary. You know, no one is born with superpowers to save the world, or stumbles upon a beautiful love story by chance, or effortlessly conquers billion-dollar projects… Those with extraordinary lives, those exceptional individuals, hide beneath their glittering brilliance countless bitter sorrows and pay a much higher price than anyone else. The special are often favored in many ways, but that doesn't mean they are immune to joy, anger, love, hatred, sorrow, sadness, disappointment, deceit, and betrayal… On the contrary, precisely because they are special, they must struggle to cope with extraordinary difficulties beyond our imagination. It sounds particularly appealing, but hidden beneath that dazzling glamour are silent hardships that few ordinary people could endure!

We often tend to take the ordinary for granted, viewing it as something obvious, self-evident, and naturally expected. Sometimes we grow weary of the quiet, uneventful rhythm of life, wishing for something dramatic to happen that would disrupt the current balance. We don't consider what would happen if, one day, the ordinary suddenly disappeared – where would life lead?

When you're lying in a hospital bed, no matter how special you are, all you long for is a normal physical condition. When romantic and family relationships are shattered by unreasonable demands, you surely wish they could return to normal. When you're at the forefront, ridiculed and criticized by the whole world, you'll pray that no one cares about you, so you can live a normal life. You see, normalcy is a privilege not everyone gets!

Living a normal life isn't just about having three meals a day and clothes to wear all day; nor does it require lowering standards to be considered normal. Living a normal life means speaking and acting in a reasonable and kind manner; choosing behaviors and actions that benefit oneself while avoiding creating obstacles or difficulties for others. A normal person lives calmly in the face of adversity, composed about what cannot be changed immediately, serene in their actions, and at peace with everything that has passed and is yet to come. Wanting to live a normal life isn't easy, and not everyone who wants to can achieve it. That's why it's said that being normal is also a privilege.