Webster's dictionary defines normal as...

People always say different behaviors, cultures and practices are "weird," "strange," or "different." If that's the case, what is normal. Is there a true normalcy that everyone can agree on, or are we just using the term as a cushion that gives us who think we are "normal" the comfort to lay back and criticize others. Within all societies there are norms: a leader, a tradition, a gathering, a feast, a language, a religion, but even if these practices are completely normal routines for one people, they can still be odd in another. Ideas have certain norms: wanting progress, making tasks easier, moving things faster, but an idea that benefits one culture might never be used in another. What is normal? To the individual, it may be how they live day-in and day-out; to a group, it may be a weekly meeting at someones house. "Normal" is circumstantial, an ideal that cannot recur without the definition of normal being changed. "Normal" is perceptual, a definition that each individual can decide for themselves. "Normal" is anything but normal.