What is normal?

How do you tell weather someone is normal or abnormal? I truly believe that some people can tell right a way if they are abnormal but some people are quiet and hard to tell. In my psychology class my teacher showed us twenty five pictures of different people. Some people were abnormal and some were normal. She asked us to identify the abnormal and normal people. I thought that I was going to be pretty good at it but when she gave us the answers I was wrong on most of them. What I am trying to say is that looks can be deceiving and you shouldn't be so quick to judge. If you met someone and you make a decision about them you could be completely wrong about them and miss out on a great person. I think that my generation is really quick to judge people. What I learned is that I have been quick to judge people and I am going to start to make an effort to get to know people before I judge.

Friends

Have you ever had one of those friends who is supposed to be one of your best friends but every time you want to hang out with them they always seen to ditch you? Well if you haven't guessed I have one of those friends. She is always saying that I am one of her best friends but every time I ask her if she wants to hang out she says no. I just don't get it. I really don't see why she has any reason to say no because I have my drivers license and I would be able to go anywhere without any parents. I really don't understand why she calls me her best friend if we have only hung out once have been friends for three years now. If your going to call someone your best friend really mean it.

(picture from Parkersburg & wood county public library)

change

If I can ask any question about boys it would to be why are they attracted to the controlling, bossy, know-it all, stuck up, jealous, perky kind of girls? I mean not all boys are but most are. One of my friends is dating this kind of girl and he is really the nicest person or used to be.
Last night at a basketball game I was talking to this guy. As him and I were talking ; she was across the gym and she calls him on his cell phone. She asked him who I was and if I was hitting on him. After he got the phone, we started to talk more and the more I talked to him it made me realize that the sweet guy I used to know was gone. He wasn't the same person. He used to be fun and a very out door person. He looked like he had gained weight and he wasn't outside as much as before.
Girls like this who are always mad at their boyfriends do change who the boyfriend is. The reason why their boyfriends change is because they want to please these type of girls. In the process of doing this, the boys forget who they. I think his girlfriend needs to just lay off and consider the boyfriend for who he is. The girl must have liked the old guy for them to be dating. If you are ever in a relationship please consider the other person beside your self.

Mom and Dad

I would have to say that if your parents are anything like mine, you must be going crazy. Don't get me wrong I love them all but they are so controlling and they have to know every that is going on. My mother gets mad when I don't tell her I am in the shower at night, or one time I came home three minutes late and she freaked out on me. This past Thanksgiving my younger sister and I wanted to go to my older sister's apartment for the night she wouldn't let us go because we had to help out on Thanksgiving. I mean it was my sister's place. It's not like it's one of my friend houses. That's the kind of of things my mother does lets talk about my dad. Now I was dating a young man who happen to work for my dad who was my age. Things between him and I didn't work after five months. I broke up with him and my dad had really liked this young man and was yelling at me for choosing not to be with him anymore. My question is aren't dads supposed to happy that their daughters are no longer with their boy friends? The thing that bothered my sisters the most when I was with him was they loved my boy friend but both of them had been in relationships longer then I had been with him and my parents hated both of their boy friends. I don't get them. Another thing about my mom and dad is that they think my younger sister and I are going to be around forever when we are both going to college very soon. Every time ask to do anything they ask what about your chores? Very time I look at them in the eyes and say we aren't going to be around for ever. They really need to start doing things around the house for themselves and not expect my sister and I to be around forever and also that they aren't going to be able to control us forever. (Image from British Columbia website.)

Work

Today I was in class and this one kid who works really hard, has a job receives really high grades and is really nice. He ask another kid in my class
"Why he parties so much?" This kid just said
"Because I like to have fun." I decided to jump into the conversation and say " Why do you play video games?" The smart kid just shook his head and had a look on his face like he was trying to figure out this whole thing that was happening right in front of him.
My whole thing to this is that partying doesn't make you a bad person. You can go to a party to just have a good time and life doesn't all the time have to be work. I mean work is very important to me but I think what the smart kid needs to realize that you need a balance in life. You can still work hard and go to a party or two and still accomplish your goals in life. But we people need to realize you do need that balance because to much of partying and too much work can be a bad thing. (K-state perspectives website)