"The norm": An response to Sarah's essay

After reading Sarah’s essay, I thought of a staircase. She talks about the norm, and how people are supposed to follow it but then there are also people who stray away instead of conforming. I think with this master staircase it is obvious that at the beginning there is only one "right" path to take, which is equal to the norms one is supposed to follow, growing up, going to college etc. There are people who stray from that, but does that mean they fall off of the staircase? Then at the end, after college, people start to be accepted when they stray from the norm and with this staircase there are multiple ways you can go after you get to the top. Well written and interesting story!