This is going to be a tad bit ironic on a blog called "A Not So Typical Life", but what is so bad about living a normal human life? You know the one; you get married, have a job, take care of your spouse and kids, get old and die. Nothing out of the ordinary, no huge achievements for history to remember you by. Just you enjoying your time on this earth with the ones that you love.
It seems today that people want the newest and greatest things. Like the new Iphone 5 or that new car your neighbor has in their driveway. Maybe the newest and greatest isn't material, maybe it's that coveted boss position at work, or that new twenty year old you get with if you had tons of money. Why is it that our society thinks you have to do something exciting to be happy? Now I'm not knocking those people who want to be the next Albert Einstein, or a more modern example Mark Zuckerberg. It's great that they have those aspirations if that is really what they want, but if it's what society has forced upon them then it is most certainly not okay.
As a society if we never tell the younger generation that it's okay to be normal, to be just average then can we really blame that generation for thinking they are a failure if they get straight B's? That kids will commit suicide because they weren't special enough? That is not a society I want to live in. I just want to tell them that it is okay to be average and to be normal. Normal people don't always succeed on the first try and that's okay.
I don't want to have a special life, I just want the normal one and that should be okay.
Just some food for thought.
This is a very interesting thought. there is nothing wrong a "normal life". There is a warm sense of security in that. Normal, is safe, predictable and reliable. It also sounds a bit boring. I believe however, we are all given a gift. We all are called to do "something". It is our job or even duty, to figure out what that is and use it to it's maximum potential. To do anything less would be cheating yourself out of the grand life God made available to you. Certainly we are are not all called to greatness. You can however, grow where you are planted. If your gift is healing become a doctor, even if you treat strep throats all day. If your gift is writing...write to provoke people to think, teaching...inspire others to learn, speaking ...speak to inspire others. You want to strive for mediocrity, but like it or not , you will be great to someone who's life you have touched. It could be your neighbor, or your child or a student you had 15 years ago. There is no such thing as an "ordinary" life.
ReplyDeleteI think that people should accept that their kids don't have to be the next Einstein, but I think that all parents should inspire their children to do the best that they can in anything/everything they can. So long someone's kids do their best, it doesn't matter what grades they get or whatever because they will find what they're good at. No one is good at everything, but everyone's good at something. I think that whatever someone's good at should be what they do, and they shouldn't care if they're better than other people because they're doing their best at what they do. Not that it will stop people from caring, but it's worth a thought.
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