What Is Normal?

This humongous plum does not seem normal to me.

Some days, I am watching TV or reading the newspaper and something that seems quite "normal" to society seems odd to me that it's accepted as normal. I am seen as as weird because I choose not to eat animal protein all the time. Outside of holidays, my diet is plant based. Many would call my life extreme. It's the one comment I get a lot....."isn't that a little extreme, eating that way?" Maybe to some....

Although, having a surgery where they take a vein out of your leg and connect it to your coronary artery just so it can bypass a vein that is clogged with fat is seen as normal. Over a half a million people seek this treatment every year. Many, saving their lives. It's amazing, but it's not seen as extreme? Eating plants, though,...that's extreme! The fact that I saw an old clip of the Super Bowl Shuffle and The Fridge, weighing in at 335lbs, didn't look big to me, is not normal. That they can create an entire series called My 600 lb. Life because there are ENOUGH people to continue doing the series....not normal. That many overweight people need to use a machine overnight, so they don't stop breathing, because the fat around their neck reduces the width of their air passages is not normal. That we spray POISON on our lawns just so it looks nice is not normal. Lastly, the sad fact that we are raising the first generation of kids who won't live as long as we will. Now that my friends is sad and not normal!