Are we normal? Are you normal? Am I normal? So, whats normal?

I stared at my computer for a long while today, before writing this blog. It was hard for me to come up for a "normal" family to compare my family to. What is normal? Of course I immediately thought of Full House, but that was the example Prof. Brummitt used and I wanted to be different. Ultimately my mind thought of lots of shows like The Simpsons, Family Guy and even reality shows like Keeping Up with the Kardashians. At the end, I decided on Here Comes Honey Boo-Boo, and here is why.




Honey Boo-Boo!?!, you may be thinking, are you kidding me! They are the farthest from normal. And maybe you may be right, they may not be "normal", but they sure are real. Unlike normal families today, being weird or unique or different tends to be left in the shadow, and everyone must follow some cookie cutter version of what they think they should be, and that is where HoneyBoo-Boo and the rest of her family are different. They don't care what they do or how they do it, as long as they are enjoying themselves they are happy. If you look at a family like the Kardashians, they always look prim and proper, but if you have even watched 5 minutes of any Honey Boo-Boo episode you could make any of the following assumptions: this family never showers, how do all 5 of them fit in a 2 bedroom house, their clothes never match, why did the youngest daughter cover herself in butter and slide around the house, Well, because they are THEMSELVES!

My family most certainty relates more with Honey Boo-Boo. Now I don't want you all to think that I don't shower or I personally slide around my house in a puddle of butter because I don't, my mother would have a cow, but my family is more related to Honey Boo-Boo. I never have to worry about where my next meal is coming from, my parents make enough money to buy me new clothes and food and to pay for the house and the bills. I won't come home one day after school and find that we are moving to another town after only being in the current one for a month. I have a stable and stationary family. We have lived in the house I live in for 10 years. Honey Boo-Boo and her parents have a house, where they have lived in forever, they eat three meals a day, maybe not the same things we eat. I remember one episode where they ate noodles, mixed with butter and ketchup and hotdogs. Thinking about that makes me want to puke, but hey to each their own.

At the end of the day, no one is normal my family isn't, the Walls family isn't and neither is Honey Boo-Boo's family, because normal doesn't exist. There is that cookie cutter version of what a family should be and how they should act, but no one should be forced to act or behave like that. "Just be yourself", which I have heard more than a hundred times from my mother.And these days, I am starting to believe it more and more.