Married to Mediocrity?

            


            To call something or someone mediocre is often a derogatory comment. In schools we are motivated to rise above the mediocre and be the exceptional or outstanding. In this attempt, we often associate the term “mediocrity” to something that lacks attractiveness or deserves attention. There is always a cream layer of students in a class and the mediocre is just “the rest”. Low in ambitions and less in fighting spirit. That was indeed my perspective towards that class of people before a paradigm shift occurred onto me.

             I used to look down upon “no ambition” people. I barely had a good reputation about the people who lived for meager joys and drooled over materialistic pleasures or were startled with small surprises. I thought of the bigger purposes in life and the means to achieve them. Values mean more than beauty. Achievements should be the ones that last longer and make an epoch  and the right thing is to brush away smaller joys for the bigger purpose. Everything is transient so why not make something that will last bit longer.

        Yes, I was confused in the pursuit of the real. Too many concepts. The world was full of varied perspectives and subjective “truths”. After jostling with many kinds of “the best way to live life” , there came this “way of life” that took my fancy. It is looking at the simplest and smallest joy. Letting go the larger benefit and trifling with the trivial. May be life really isn’t a journey. It may be a painting.. a moment that got captivated in colors and there is no past or future to it.

Mediocre V/s Exceptional

            Let’s just get as mediocre as possible. Let’s have no ambitions, no goals. That doesn’t sound good right? Let’s have ambitions but let’s not let it come in the way of our mediocrity.