Fear of Mediocrity
The day we
are born, we don’t know what we want to make of our lives. As we live, we learn
about life, we start dreaming and we start understanding our passion and
interests. Every kid including me wants to do something extraordinary with
their lives. As a kid I always wanted to be a cricketer and I am pretty sure
many others like me shared the same dream. The death of this dream was obvious,
parents found it impractical, they wanted me to focus on important things like
studying and make a scholar out of me. They knew I was not matured enough to
take this decision, and so they were right in forcing their decision on me. I
always wanted to know is there an age for dreams, is it a necessary condition
for us to mature in order to follow our dreams. Is this the
place where dreams go to die? Would my life have been extraordinary if I had
taken the risk of becoming a cricketer or would I have ended in a pure failure?
The fear I felt then and even today is the same. The fear of mediocrity. …