I'm in the midst of major procrastination at the moment. It's a hot day today, almost too perfect for the beach and I'm stuck here in the house trying to do a report with no beginning. My cat's outside, chasing unknown insects, being the hunter that she is, and what I would give to be her right now.
So lately I've been watching slash hearing slash reading about great stories of average people making it big. They started out with nothing, even less that what I have currently (and that's saying a lot), ventured out into an unknown journey that they were called for. And it's making me think of my own journey because here I am, struggling to finish something I haven't even started yet, constantly living in mediocrity, getting satisfied with what's there and then getting frustrated because I know that there's so much more. The dangerous thing about mediocrity is that it's a bad addiction, once you start making yourself believe that that's all there is to it, that that golden pot at the end of the rainbow is nothing but a foolish fantasy, then you start thinking mediocrity as reality.
If I look at myself now and try to connect that with what I want to achieve in the future, I get scared. Can I do it? Do I have the potential? Am I smart enough? Am I likeable enough? I look at myself and I'm so unfinished. I have to keep sharpening myself, I have to make myself better so I can get it. But do I have enough time? And every time I come closer to who I want to become, even more uncertainties flood in.
No matter how hard you try though, there's always going to be uncertainties; there's always going to be someone smarter than you, there will always be situations that will render your intelligence useless. The best always meets its match. So if that's the case, then wouldn't that prove life will always be mediocre? And yet if you really try to understand it, no one was ever born to fail. No one was ever born to live an average life. True, people are born incomplete, but perhaps the reason for that is not because we're just not meant to be a ruler of a country nor the richest person alive, but so we should go out and complete ourselves. And if you come to the end of your existence having completed everything that was lacking, wouldn't you call that success?
Some people like to have faith in themselves, believe in who they are, get past their shortcomings, and focus on their strengths. And if they don't have any, they have determination. While others believe in a higher being, that as imperfect and flawed creatures they can't do anything, but putting their fate in the hands of something much larger than themselves, then their successful destiny is secured. Whatever their beliefs might be, it all boils down to one thing: they believe in something big. Maybe that's what it takes to be these people. Forget about that comment you made that made you seem remarkably idiotic, or that fail you got for your last test. Dust yourself off and keep learning. And open your eyes for opportunities. Sure the world might come off as unfair sometimes, but the world is not against you. If anything, it's happily throwing off success to your lap. It's never unfair, it's just tricky, because it needs someone who's worthy of having it. And it doesn't need some whiny brat, acting like a victim of a vicious cycle, but someone who's willing to keep getting back on the saddle, riding it endlessly until he feels he owns the damn thing.
Those successful people who we're so painfully familiar of, the story of Cinderella finally telling her ugly step-family to shove it where the sun don't shine and then happily shagged the prince, they all thought outside the box. Cindy looked at a piece of cloth and said to herself, "Hang on, if I take this thing and sew it into a totally hot dress, I'd be able get out of this hole and hook up with the prince," a struggling musician decided that instead of looking at other cultures for inspiration, why not revive his own culture, a budding entrepreneur saw an abandoned car park and turned it into a restaurant then adding a jazz stage to entertain his customers. It doesn't take a genius or to be affluent to look at something that's not there, even looking at something that's already there, and seeing potential. In the end it's not about finding time to do something, but finding the will to do it.
As for me, I'm looking forward to all the random aspects of my life suddenly weave into a grand story. Listen as I tell you the most unexpected of all journeys.
Coming soon to Channel Nine. Watch and be inspired. ;)
So lately I've been watching slash hearing slash reading about great stories of average people making it big. They started out with nothing, even less that what I have currently (and that's saying a lot), ventured out into an unknown journey that they were called for. And it's making me think of my own journey because here I am, struggling to finish something I haven't even started yet, constantly living in mediocrity, getting satisfied with what's there and then getting frustrated because I know that there's so much more. The dangerous thing about mediocrity is that it's a bad addiction, once you start making yourself believe that that's all there is to it, that that golden pot at the end of the rainbow is nothing but a foolish fantasy, then you start thinking mediocrity as reality.
If I look at myself now and try to connect that with what I want to achieve in the future, I get scared. Can I do it? Do I have the potential? Am I smart enough? Am I likeable enough? I look at myself and I'm so unfinished. I have to keep sharpening myself, I have to make myself better so I can get it. But do I have enough time? And every time I come closer to who I want to become, even more uncertainties flood in.
No matter how hard you try though, there's always going to be uncertainties; there's always going to be someone smarter than you, there will always be situations that will render your intelligence useless. The best always meets its match. So if that's the case, then wouldn't that prove life will always be mediocre? And yet if you really try to understand it, no one was ever born to fail. No one was ever born to live an average life. True, people are born incomplete, but perhaps the reason for that is not because we're just not meant to be a ruler of a country nor the richest person alive, but so we should go out and complete ourselves. And if you come to the end of your existence having completed everything that was lacking, wouldn't you call that success?
Some people like to have faith in themselves, believe in who they are, get past their shortcomings, and focus on their strengths. And if they don't have any, they have determination. While others believe in a higher being, that as imperfect and flawed creatures they can't do anything, but putting their fate in the hands of something much larger than themselves, then their successful destiny is secured. Whatever their beliefs might be, it all boils down to one thing: they believe in something big. Maybe that's what it takes to be these people. Forget about that comment you made that made you seem remarkably idiotic, or that fail you got for your last test. Dust yourself off and keep learning. And open your eyes for opportunities. Sure the world might come off as unfair sometimes, but the world is not against you. If anything, it's happily throwing off success to your lap. It's never unfair, it's just tricky, because it needs someone who's worthy of having it. And it doesn't need some whiny brat, acting like a victim of a vicious cycle, but someone who's willing to keep getting back on the saddle, riding it endlessly until he feels he owns the damn thing.
Those successful people who we're so painfully familiar of, the story of Cinderella finally telling her ugly step-family to shove it where the sun don't shine and then happily shagged the prince, they all thought outside the box. Cindy looked at a piece of cloth and said to herself, "Hang on, if I take this thing and sew it into a totally hot dress, I'd be able get out of this hole and hook up with the prince," a struggling musician decided that instead of looking at other cultures for inspiration, why not revive his own culture, a budding entrepreneur saw an abandoned car park and turned it into a restaurant then adding a jazz stage to entertain his customers. It doesn't take a genius or to be affluent to look at something that's not there, even looking at something that's already there, and seeing potential. In the end it's not about finding time to do something, but finding the will to do it.
As for me, I'm looking forward to all the random aspects of my life suddenly weave into a grand story. Listen as I tell you the most unexpected of all journeys.
Coming soon to Channel Nine. Watch and be inspired. ;)
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