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I often feel pressure abut this question as well. How am I changing the world, what kind of impact am I making on the world. What would my VH1 behind the music story be? One of tragedy and triumph?
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I often feel pressure abut this question as well. How am I changing the world, what kind of impact am I making on the world. What would my VH1 behind the music story be? One of tragedy and triumph?
When I zoom out to the 10,000 foot level and think about this I feel like life is a crazy type of miracle. It's amazing that any of us do anything with our puny minds and messed up egos. So in that sense I'd say that just living is extraordinary and that we should embrace that. there is no average in that.
But day to day I feel the opposite, beat up and insignificant. Like I am supposed to do more with my life. When I feel like this I need to find opportunities for myself to connect with the divine. The divine within the human spirit, or the divine in a spiritual sense.
Perhaps stradling the line of that paradox is the answer to your question.
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I ponder this a lot. And I'm really glad this question was asked.
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I ponder this a lot. And I'm really glad this question was asked.
I think that the average, day to day, go to work, go home, go through the motions, etc is something feels mundane. We may enjoy such events from time to time, but to me I feel like I drift in those moments. It's easy to be swept away in thought when you have a moment to yourself.
I would like to define my life by something extraordinary that I have accomplished. If someone were to write a book on my life, I would like for it to be worth reading.
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Yes, the average life is worth living. Take it for what it is - it's life. It's existence. Of course, the average life is defined differently depending on the socio-economic status of someone, i.e., an upper-middle class American, compared to someone in a poor nation in South America, or in Central Africa. Regardless, the average life is worth living, because the alternative is to not exist.
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Sometimes life could turn extraordinarily bad! ...make an 'average' life the greatest blessing one ever got.
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That brings up the topic of living, and being alive.
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That brings up the topic of living, and being alive.
To live you have to be happy and do what you want and make your life meaningful in your own standards.
But everyone is alive. so being alive is average, but living is extraordinary.
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If everybody was given a shovel, and everybody had the gumption and resources to utilize their shovel for purposes less obvious than digging, maybe even reinventing their simple tools completely into machines whose function serves highest and most complex of human systems.....then all the soil of the earth would go unturned.....
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If everybody was given a shovel, and everybody had the gumption and resources to utilize their shovel for purposes less obvious than digging, maybe even reinventing their simple tools completely into machines whose function serves highest and most complex of human systems.....then all the soil of the earth would go unturned.....
That's my fluffy metaphor for the day.
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The concept of average is flawed in, and of itself. The relationships you build and the people you impact are the only things you leave behind. Everyday you live "averagely" is a day that you might become extraordinary just by virtue of random circumstance.
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The most evil people on Earth require others to justify their existence. Training people to justify themselves to themselves is just a variation.
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I think it depends wholly on your definitions of both "average" and "extraordinary". Our perception of these two principles is determined according to what we choose to value. Anybody's life can be extraordinary if one finds importance in the vast ocean of things society deems "average". We can all be great if we simply change our perspective on what things in life have value.
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This may depend on whether or not it's examined, for Socrates said:
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This may depend on whether or not it's examined, for Socrates said:
"The unexamined life is not worth living."
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Spoken with the eye of youth.
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Spoken with the eye of youth.
Most of us have these huge dreams. And then we turn 60 and most of us lead regular lives- if we are LUCKY.
Then we might begin to understand that the only thing worth living is love and kindness. The rest is really a crock of sh*t.
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