Celebrating Mediocrity Humanity never stops going forward and it should never stop doing so, but there are new obstacles on the ground which is blocking our way to future. With every passing year humans settle for less, it is getting acceptable to be failed over and over. Every human being is flawed yes, we can’t be perfect and we can’t win every single conflict in our short lives but it should not stop us from trying to achieve something greater than ourselves. The whole human civilization is hold together by its past victories, discoveries and braveries we are standing on “shoulders of giants”. The thing about being dependent about past is, if you just stand on your ground and do nothing you simply have nothing to win but only to lose. The society and …show more content…
Everything goes on in their subconscious, those little brains of children actually write everything you say and calculate them. So even if you claim you are innocent in this manner, well you are not. You must be careful with your words to not affect our future, sounds very sci-fi yet its true we are the past by every passing second the children are the future of the very humanity, yet we have nerve to corrupt and destroy it. If everyone is “best” then this means no one is truly best also ironically nearly everybody thinks that they are above average, which actually makes them average. By that logic by thinking you are average, you actually beat being a mediocre. Of course the humans want to feel unique this is our nature after all, but claiming you are unique actually makes you not This is called “special snowflake” syndrome all snowflakes are already special, you don’t have to shove it to everyone’s faces that makes you opposite of the
Dana Nguyen Ms. Newray ERWC, Period 5 August 28, 2015 Perez’s & Graff Articles Summaries In Perez’s article, Want To Get Into College? Learn to Fail [ Feb. 12, 2012], failure is the most significant, but hurtful step towards a successful life. If a person has never honestly dealt with failure, how can they possibly ever improve or move forward? It is important to learn and be able to solve problems in society, whether it is for academic or not.
Everyone tends to look back at their lives every know and then. The past can be used a tool, a motivator and a guide to help drive their future. Many people rely on their past to help guide them and use it as a tool to help make decisions. Even though looking at ones past is a giid thing Some people rely too heavily on their past and they get lost in it.
We are taught to appreciate people far apart from ourselves success, but when it comes to those around us, we are constantly in a battle to prove ourselves better than them. What better feeling than to be the smartest out of the
A person shouldn’t measure their success based on what they own, but based on their accomplishments. Those who never truly succeed, take pride in what they own, rather than what they’ve done. Emily Dickinson wrote in Success is Counted Sweetest, “Success is counted sweetest, by those who never succeed.” In this poem Dickinson describes what success really is, and those why are proud of their success, never truly achieved it. Today, success doesn’t matter at all.
Yearning to be the best is only for self-reassurance; knowing you are the brightest star in the universe. Believing you are someone you are not is a hoax; even though deep down they know they are not that person, they will never admit it. After analyzing
The past is full of examples, good as well as bad. If one doesn’t learn from the mistakes of the past, one is doomed to repeat them. The actions and sentiments of history’s worst people such as anger, avariciousness, and selfishness are coming through subtly but surely today in many times and in unexpected places. But history also has granted us with many positive examples.
If someone is deemed above average, they are brought to a similar fate as George Bergeron; “George, while his intelligence was way above normal, had a little mental handicap radio in his ear. He was required by law to wear it at all times.” (Vonnegut 1). They are brought unwillingly down to a similar level of potential in life as everyone else. People are not meant to succeed beyond others, they are simply forced to be able to perform a job in a somewhat robotic fashion of exactly the same as everyone else.
It is easy to think that you are better than somebody else based on your opportunities or
It's a process we all go through and continues all throughout our educational career, that's why the valedictorians get to speak at the graduations, not just every ordinary student that is graduating. Even later in life, in the workplace, employees are always comparing themselves to the other employees, trying to be better than the other, trying to more successful than the other to be able to get that next big promotion. Business compare themselves to one another, trying to sell more
Many individuals experience different amounts of failure in their lifetimes. Many learn and grow from their defeats and others let it keep them from succeeding. I made sure that failure was another obstacle to success. Icons like Randy moss didn’t let failure get the best of him when he didn’t make the freshman high school football team, and look at him now, he is one of the best Football players of all time.
The satisfaction you feel when you are successful always doesn't come easy sometimes you need to fail in order to know what the true joy of being successful feels like. In the essay The Right to Fail written by an American critic William Zinsser, he states “Don't be afraid to fail!” “The right to fail is one of the few freedoms that the country does not grant its citizens.” Zinsser depicts the rich truth that you can fail, you can get back up and try again. You do not need to fear failure everyone makes mistakes and in America that is acceptable and understandable.
They are being given artificial praise that makes them feel extra special. It makes them believe that everything is always about them. They expect applause and they think they are entitled for getting an award even if they don’t deserve it. “According to Dr. Jean Twenge, the result of this constant praise has been a measurable increase in narcissism and a generation that has a deeply embedded sense of entitlement. ( Twenge)
An esteemed position in society should be valued above all other qualities, justifying that individuals desperate enough will risk all their redeeming traits for a prestigious status. How can what others think, affect a person? Significantly it does, a reputation or the way one is perceived as, can be a practical asset. Day in and out, through social media or physical interactions, people are always aiming to get their name out.
Success has become relative. When we initially do something that we believe is a success and the public deems it unspectacular, we no longer feel pride and instead feel that we are adequate. America’s social system is loosely based on a meritocracy, with its central idea being that if everyone is presented with the same opportunities to succeed, than everything is equal and fair. If we cannot succeed, it is only our own incompetence that we can
One person’s failure may mean success to another. For many years, the environment we grow in, people tend to view progress in ways like having much wealth and being famous. The myth about success has been so rampant even in our advertisements and other marketing techniques as compared to the reality (Hines, pg7). Many people, however, tend to believe in the situation. Although owning a big house, becoming a president of United States like Barrack Obama among others can be a success for such individuals, this does not provide the real definition of success.