If you ask someone "hey how are you?", you expect to get one of three answers: either well/happy/great
, bad/sad/low
, or just OK/fine
. Now, what's the easiest, most common answer? "OK", of course. "Fine, thank you, how are you?". So typical.
, bad/sad/low, or just OK/fine. Now, what's the easiest, most common answer? "OK", of course. "Fine, thank you, how are you?". So typical.So, first of all, people in my experience are rarely honest nowadays. No matter how down they are, they always manage to muffle out an "OK". And if they're great, they hide it with this obvious cocky coolness, and still manage to beam out "I'm OK". So, if anyone ever reads this, try being honest next one someone asks you. Be original. "How are you?"... "I'm sick"
, "I'm chilly", "I'm nervious"
, "I'm hyper"
, "I'm tired"
, "I'm MAD!"
, "I'm tall", or something... Make it up. It'll lighten up someone's day.
, "I'm chilly", "I'm nervious", "I'm hyper", "I'm tired", "I'm MAD!", "I'm tall", or something... Make it up. It'll lighten up someone's day.But that last thought was a sidethought...
it's not the reason for this entry. This entry is about mediocrity.
it's not the reason for this entry. This entry is about mediocrity.Mediocrity sucks. It's worse than disaster. You know what I think mediocrity is? Mediocrity is inertia applied on the will (a person's will and soul, not some dying guy's will). It happens when you do not have a fixed goal to go towards, and you let yourself be drifted
only by outside forces like routine, by others, and by luck. When you let that happen, entropy kicks in.
Ever-present entropy begins to waste away your every action, thought, your social relationships,
your will... it attenuates the power you once had, and eventually stops your whole self. It's physics: unaccelerated bodies tend to slow down and stop. Or rather, they tend to adjust to their outside forces.
It's worse than disaster. You know what I think mediocrity is? Mediocrity is inertia applied on the will (a person's will and soul, not some dying guy's will). It happens when you do not have a fixed goal to go towards, and you let yourself be drifted only by outside forces like routine, by others, and by luck. When you let that happen, entropy kicks in. Ever-present entropy begins to waste away your every action, thought, your social relationships, your will... it attenuates the power you once had, and eventually stops your whole self. It's physics: unaccelerated bodies tend to slow down and stop. Or rather, they tend to adjust to their outside forces.The valley of mediocrity is awful. I've been there. I wasn't an extreme case, but it was pretty bad. It involves depression
, losing sense of reality, and a big whole ugly waste of time
. The only good it brought to me was the lesson to not let it happen again. "Es gibt keine schlechte Erfahrung". (There is no bad experience).
, losing sense of reality, and a big whole ugly waste of time. The only good it brought to me was the lesson to not let it happen again. "Es gibt keine schlechte Erfahrung". (There is no bad experience).It's even in the Bible! Somewhere in Revelations, it says that one should either be hot or cold, but not in between. Wise words. Good and evil play no role here... I believe it refers to taking a determined position, so what really matters is the will of the self. The more honest a person's goal is, the more powerful it will be.
This last idea, experience, and religious sources allow me to conclude that the human being is, at its core, made to have good goals: goals of achievement, order, truth, and happiness.
How idyllic.
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