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. The
fear which stops me from making my life extraordinary. The fear stops me from
taking risk and chasing my real dreams, something which I feel for. The fear is
different from other fear because living with this fear is quite easy and
straight forward. We can pass our entire lives without even noticing that we
possess this fear. Even I can live with it, and have a mediocre life, but the
choice is do I want to live a mediocre life? Do you want to live a mediocre
life if you have an option to make it extraordinary?

I had
another dream, it was get into an IIT. I am mentioning another instance from my
life because this is different. I was given permission and support from my
parents to follow it and chase it to the best of my abilities. They feared all
along the 2 years that what will my kid do, but that’s a different thing. This
dream was accepted because, it was on my path to learning and education, it was
feasible, it was honored and most important it was related to studies. Can you
look at this acceptance issue, why can’t all dreams be equally accepted? What
if I had told them I wanted to drop out of school and write books at the age of
16? I don’t think that was ever a choice, and I was matured enough to
understand what they feel and how society works.
So I was
chasing my dream, and it crashed in a similar manner like all other dreams. I
may have wanted to give it a second try, but parents and society wanted me to
go with the last feasible option and even I was convinced that it’s okay to
forget the dream and live on. I just want to prove my point that this is the
place where fear of mediocrity comes up. It comes within our mind, we start
thinking that we are not good enough, may be this was not meant for us, or
maybe I am supposed to live a simple life and don’t deserve to be in an IIT.
Eventually it was my decision to compromise with my dream, but was my decision
affected by the external factors? Wasn’t another try for my dream worth it,
what would have happened if I would have failed again? Would that be the place
where dreams go to die? Or will this be the place where dreams go to die?

What will
happen if we fail in chasing the dream, nothing, we can try again, we can even
go for another dream, and we can get back to mediocrity even, so why not give
it a try and have a regret less for our deathbed?
So live to
make your lives extraordinary, you will always have the option of mediocrity
open for you. Chasing your dreams is the way to go………Conquer your fear of
mediocrity.
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