Most journalists cannot be classified as normal, myself included.

That's a fact.

We look at the world differently. We're conditioned to be that way.

Most of us are analytical, and sometimes when we're in situations outside of work we find ourselves asking the hard, uncomfortable questions regular people would never even think to ask.

Case in point:

One of my coworkers was talking about a friend of hers who's been having a rough time of it. Another reporter walks into the conversation, hears who it's about and asks, "Did she die?"

Such is our lives.