Missing: Normal

Sitting around while my broken bones heal, I've been waiting for things to get back to normal. Then I realized that I've been waiting for things to get back to normal for years. Yeah, things will be great again as soon as we get past:

• SARS
• The war in Iraq
• The possibility of war in Iraq
• Beltway snipers
• Anthrax
• 9/11
• The dotcom crash
• The dotcom hype
• The Y2K scare
• etc. ...

What if there is no more Normal to return to? I think Normal vanished sometime around 1994-1995. We now live in the Age of Perpetual Crisis. Welcome aboard.