My mediocrity!

How often do you ponder upon what the real purpose of your life is? Every day before you go to bed? Every once in a while you watch some inspiring movie? Maybe you are a ‘take it as it comes’ person and avoid this question all together.

In any case, I’m pretty sure a huge majority of us don’t have an answer to this question. Most of us tend to live a life that is often a result of the circumstances around us and every iota of our precious time is about molding ourselves to get past these circumstances. Every second of our lives, we think of keeping our families safe, of money, of happiness and more often than not everything that you regretted right from your time of birth. This is pretty normal isn’t it?

When you come from a conservative or a pseudo modern family, the training to live such a life starts right from the time you come onto this earth. There is nothing wrong with such a life. You serve your time well and you go away. This is normal and yet, at the same time its Mediocre.

Some say mediocrity is a self inflicted sin. Some say it is underrated. Whatever it is, does living a mediocre life and only striving to spread happiness to your family live up to what you really want yourself to be? If it is, then so be it, nothing wrong in doing so. But, think of what your un-invoked alter ego living in a world of ingenious might be thinking. We often laugh at this meme which asks “What happens if we use 100% of our brain”. When we come to think of it, its pretty sad that we are not actually using what we own to make something good of our lives. Yes, it is perfectly alright to think of your family, your job and yourself to lead through a decent life. But what about that “Eureka!” moment that we all are suckers for. It’ll just be a lie if we don’t admit that we all crave for such moments in our lives. But, do you really strive in pursuit of such a moment and put in your 100% efforts in achieving it? Having a pursuit towards greatness and an unquenched thirst to achieve it is what that makes great people what they are. And I think such a pursuit is what makes the life more interesting and worth living for.

It may take some time to realize what you really want with your life. But, when such an idea comes to your mind, you should not let your past or current circumstances dictate you to shun the idea all together. If that’s what you really want then you have to be ready to toil yourself with your blood and sweat to achieve it irrespective of who you are and where you are from. At the end of your time even if you don’t achieve it you can at least claim to have a purpose for your life.

I am 28 years old and I have no clue about what I am doing with my life. I’m still awaiting the miraculous “idea” which will tell me what to do with it. But, I am keeping myself aware that once such an idea comes I won’t dismiss it. I wish that you do too. The very fact of keeping yourself aware to identify the “idea” shall help you in recognizing it and eventually help you realize what you want to do with your life on earth. Being mediocre in many things is alright, but being an expert in at least one thing that you really want is what shall set you apart from others. Go for it. Godspeed.