Longing to be "normal", he blamed his obsession with muscular men on envy of their good looks.
Because that pessimistic Israel exists alongside another Israel that wants to be more normal, that sees the obsession with security and maintaining the occupation of the West Bank as toxic to its own rights.
But there is nothing normal about the internet obsession with this animal.
People are amazed by normal things and that obsession worries me!" Not afraid to take a swipe at his fellow leaders, he adds: "All I do is live like the majority of my people, not the minority.
As someone who was always about 18 months behind everyone else in terms of doing normal teenage things, my obsession with football saved me on more than one occasion when asked about my weekend plans.
"If you're a real addict, you have lots of people who can make your obsession seem completely normal," he said.
In short, her "obsession" with being normal blinds her to the very real truth about how minorities are treated by the church and society she swims unconsciously in every single day.
One person's obsession is another's normal behavior.
The television screens are clear for normal broadcasts again and strange national obsessions with medals come to an end.Before that end, though, comes one final blast of Olympic craziness: the closing ceremony.
Cognitive behavioral models of obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) assume continuity between normal obsessional intrusive thoughts (OITs) and obsessions.
