Normal People

Normal People:

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Normal people.

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Anything but.

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What a show.

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Heartbreaking.

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Gut-wrenching.

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Brilliant.

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Real.

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Honest.

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Difficult.

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Graphic.

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Frustrating.

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Beautiful.

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Awesome show.

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One that’s definitely worth watching.

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Made me feel like I was in university again.

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The story of Connell going to Dublin on his own.

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Picking Trinity for a girl.

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Being in the big city.

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Going through ups and downs.

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Felt so familiar.

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Unfortunately for me, I didn’t have a Marianne.

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Had to figure it out on my own.

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But doesn’t negate how important that person is.

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He survived because of her.

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She survived because of him.

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They were together.

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Then apart.

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Could never figure each other out.

Were honest.

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But not.

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She let him go.

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He let her go.

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And at the end, all they wanted was each other.

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Having someone else’s love and forgiveness can take you to extraordinary places.

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We all need that person in our lives.

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The one who believes in us when no one else does.

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For me, it was my grandmother.

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She was the first person who told me I was going to do something.

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Never heard it growing up.

Wasn’t common in Indian households.

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Don’t blame my parents for it at all.

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Just wasn’t how they were raised.

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But my grandmother always said.

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You’re going places.

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You’re going to do great things.

I believe in you.

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I’m proud of you.

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I love you.

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That’s all we want.

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Brene Brown said it best.

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Every single person is walking around with an invisible sign on their chest that says 

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Notice me.

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Make me feel like I’m enough.

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We all are.

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But sometimes we forget.

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We may never have gotten that from someone else.

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So we need to give it to ourselves.

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But we are our own worst enemy.

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Own worst nightmare.

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We hold ourselves back.

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Put ourselves down.

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Not love who we are.

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And what we’ve become.

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I’m super guilty for it.

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Something I’m constantly working on.

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Objectively, I’ve achieved great things.

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And it still doesn’t feel like enough.

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The constant battle in my head.

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I know I’m not alone.

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I know most people feel this.

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Most have it way worse than me.

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Horrible people around them who only put them down.

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Feeling like you’re constantly alone, even with people around you.

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I’m so thankful I’m not in that situation.

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I’m also grateful I’ve done the work to shut that part of my mind off.

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I am enough.

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I will always be enough.

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I have done enough.

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And yet.

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We’re always looking for that one other person who sees us.

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Who understands us.

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Who doesn’t judge us.

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Or criticize us.

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Who allows us to be who we really are.

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Kevin Kelly said it best.

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The goal of life should be to find who you really are.

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Ideally, with someone next to you who loves you for who you are.

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That’s what Marianne and Connell had.

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They might’ve thought they wanted to be normal.

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But really, they just wanted to find themselves through each other.

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Hope that’ll be me some day.

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Go watch it.

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Normal people.

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An incredible piece of art.

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