Is it possible to live a "normal" life?

No

Explanation:

Normal is an opinion, so if something you do seems normal, there is always someone who thinks its odd. There is no "normal" anything, everything will always be weird to someone.

Correct

Further explanation:

The policy of containment set the tone for US foreign policy by focusing on keeping communism and the Soviet Union's influence limited,

George F. Kennan recommended the policy of containment. Kennan was an American diplomat in Moscow after World War II.  In 1946, he sent what became known as "the long telegram" of his advice about what the USA needed to do about the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR).

Kennan advised not pushing the conflict too much, but instead just try to "contain" the Soviet Union and wait for their system to collapse under the weight of its own problems.  In the meantime, the goal was to keep the communist influence from spreading.