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.
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