A friend of mine tweeted not so long a go 'some people don't realise how hard some of us are working just to be normal.' This friend is a guy who hates football and doesn't drink, loves films and bikes and taking pictures, and therefore believes that people find him not 'normal' as he does not fill the stereotype of your average man, and worryingly it's probably true. For some of us a standard conversation with another human being is a terribly scary thing, I'm a what I like to call a 'try hard', someone whose fairly certain they are not 'normal' but try damn hard to be. We all know there's no such thing as 'normal' I mean, how is it measured? But then we also know the average man drinks 4 pints a week, women spend thousands a year on make-up and 2 year old boys do not play with barbies, right? I'm not sure who decided what constitutes the 'norm' but I can't help wondering if that person was also a 'try hard.' Most of the time we get away with our abnormal natures by surrounding ourselves with other 'try hards' but occasionally we are let loose on unsuspecting prey, for example, the friend mentioned above was once responsible (in a work capacity) for escorting Robert Carlyle to a premier of one of his films. Unfortunately all Robert wanted to talk about on the way there was where was good to get a beer and the footie (I envisaged an IT Crowd 'did you see that ludicrous display' moment coming on) or myself, who when speaking to an Editor from the BBC and the conversation dried up, rather than standing 'normally' and not saying anything, pipped up 'did you know that if the tram and the train had a race the tram would win' still a classic among my colleagues! So for some of us the very act of being 'normal' is an everyday thought as much as remembering to breathe in and out it is for everyone else . Unless there are more of us 'try hards' than I had realised?
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