Tuesday, May 25, 2010


AVERAGE


One of my friends has the greatest quote, "Everyone wants to be normal, but nobody wants to be average." Isn't that just so TRUE?



* Photo from: classes.kumc.edu/sah/resources/sensory_processing

10 comments:

jess said...

Uh huh.

One Mom said...

One of the most profoundly true statements I've ever read. Oh, the insight!

Deb Shucka said...

Big and sadly true! I love this interpretation of the Bell Curve.

Anonymous said...

YES, it is!

Tanya @ TeenAutism said...

I never thought of it like that before!

Brenda Rothman (Mama Be Good) said...

As in Garrison Keillor's Lake Wobegon, where "all the women are strong, all the men are good looking, and all the children are above average."

Unknown said...

I've never heard this before,
kind of sadly
true

Unknown said...

okay, I just said what Deb did.
does that make me average or boring,

kario said...

Sigh.

Wish we all just wanted to be ourselves, no matter what that meant, without measuring it against anything or anyone else.

Amber said...

I don't know. I would be thrilled to have an "average" mother. But then if I had one, I wouldn't know what a blessing it was... lol

:)