Who is a ‘normal’ person? by Paulo Coelho

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What do you think a normal person should be like? What does a normal person do? 
Paulo Coelho presents some characters who are supposed to be normal and maybe successful or rich and famous.
Is this section (the points below) satirical or true?
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These days… Normal is-
1] Believing that dreams are impossible.
2] Believing in everything they tell about who are your “enemies”.
3] Spending years at university and then not being able to find a job.
4] Working from nine in the morning to five in the afternoon at something that does not give us the least pleasure, so that we can retire after 30 years.
5] Retiring only to discover that we have no more energy to enjoy life, and then dying of boredom after a few years.
6] Using Botox.
7] Trying to be financially successful instead of seeking happiness.
8] Ridiculing those who seek happiness instead of money by calling them “people with no ambition”  Continue reading