Seek Natural, Not 'Normal'
Less Attachment = More You
Apr 17, 2025
Venture
6 min
The less you cling, the more calm, confident, clear, and capable—the more you return to your natural state.
Most people don’t realize how much they’ve adapted to noise—how much of their life exists in and around tension and how that noise is considered natural just because it's normal…
External noise: notifications, chaos, endless obligations.
Internal noise: clenched thoughts, rigid beliefs, reactive emotions.
We normalize stress.
We live in fight-or-flight, masked by numbness and distraction.
You weren’t built for constant stimulation, fragmented attention, or shallow connection.
You’re running subconscious loops chasing what you think you need—when really, it’s just a system out of sync, a misfire that has existed long enough to feel 'normal'. Then we assume this normal is natural.
You’ve adapted to dysfunction and call it normal—just because it’s common.
But just because something is normal doesn’t mean it’s good for you.
In fact, many of the habits we consider normal—how we react, what we consume, what we pursue—are quietly regressive. They pull us further from health, clarity, and meaning.
Imagine a world where we all worked to consume less junk—in the form of media, food, distractions, gossip, and so on—and turned that energy inward.
Toward self-awareness.
Toward fulfillment.
Toward building lives and practices that put us closer to our ideal state of being.
Natural actions support your biology and your spirit.
They align with your nervous system, your breath, your inner rhythm.
They create space for your spiritual growth and alignment.
Return to what’s natural. That’s where you’ll find real well-being.
Your Default State Is Natural, Not 'Normal'
But we’ve overwritten that default—chasing pleasure, distraction, status, money, and validation. The problem? None of it satisfies for long.
You want a thing. You suffer until you get that thing. You get the thing. It becomes normalized. You want something new. The process repeats.
And to cope with the emptiness, you turn to vices—to numb, distract, or justify how you feel.
Freedom returns when you shift from vices to virtues.
The only way to see if you’re on the wrong path is to unplug. You need solitude—long enough to hear your true voice beneath the quick fixes, the reactions, and the distractions.
Where To begin…
Do you know who you truly are?
It’s a quiet voice, a subtle feeling. It doesn't come from a source of fear, greed, or lust.
And the more still you become, the more clearly you calibrate and empower this voice—over the autopilot.
Can you laugh at what used to feel like a need?
The craving for validation, the grasping for status that lead you to being someone you definitely were not. (I picture myself laughing in a social setting at something that wasn’t funny, entertaining conversations that weren't fulfilling or useful to either involved, playing along to fit in, desiring a material item to show off to those who have little care for me, etc. The resentment, the fear, the ego loops that drove me to react, fume, and carry tension only to realize the only benefit that comes from that is the lesson of letting it all go.
You're never going to 'win' an argument.
Status built on ego, impulse, or control will always feel hollow.
Your peace and your freedom are not waiting for you behind a material or external feat, but rather a deeper knowing of your own self.
Freedom begins when you stop taking the noise so seriously. When the things that once ruled you become silly. These are aspects along the path of waking up to your true natural self.
