Life can be ordinary, but it cannot be content with mediocrity

Life can be ordinary, but it cannot be mediocre. Ordinary and mediocre, although there is only a one-word difference, but there is a world of difference.

Ordinary people love life, are down-to-earth, and therefore make a difference, becoming the leader and protagonist of life; mediocre people escape from life, passive decadence, their ideals and pursuits have long been overwhelmed by the complexity and triviality of the world, so they have no ambition and are willing to be bystanders and spectators of life.

We can settle for the ordinary, but we must not fall into mediocrity. Ordinary people may not have any earth-shattering feats in their lives, but ordinary people will still have their own dreams in their hearts, and they will still move closer to their dreams step by step in their daily efforts, and their lives are full of hope and sunshine.

And mediocre people are accustomed to doing nothing, content to live and live a chaotic life, so their lives must be empty, and their future is bound to be bleak.

It is very happy to be an ordinary person, but it is very sad to be a mediocre person. Some people define the ordinary and the mediocre in this way: "Ordinary people are a screw on the machine, unremarkable, but in the appropriate position, play their own use, realize their own value."

The mediocre person is an abandoned screw, outside the operation of the machine, and has no intention or ability to participate in the operation of the machine. ”

Life may be difficult to get rid of the ordinary fate, but it is completely able to rely on its own strength to get rid of the shackles of mediocrity. Whether a person can come out of a mediocre life and whether he can achieve the leap from ordinary to excellent is basically determined by his own choice and self-determination.

Tao Yuanming wrote in "Returning to the Garden and Living in the Countryside": "Open up the wilderness in the south and return to the garden." The square house is more than ten acres, and the grass house is eight or nine. The eaves of the elm willow shade, in front of the tao li luo hall. Ambiguous distant village, clinging to the smoke in the ruins. Dogs bark in the deep alley, chickens chirp mulberry trees upside down. The household garden is dust-free and cluttered, and the virtual room has spare time. ”

From this, we can see tao Yuanming's situation and state of mind beyond the world and intoxicated with pastoral life. In the eyes of some people, such days may be more plain and difficult.

Tao Yuanming, on the other hand, can maintain a pleasant mentality in this poor material, and his spiritual level is undoubtedly noble and great, but he is willing to be ordinary and not willing to be mediocre, so that his personality, his ambition, and his poetry emit an extraordinarily dazzling brilliance!

A person with a pursuit, even if he is not successful, he can still devote himself to life with passion, and live a colorful and colorful life. And a mediocre person, even if he occasionally wins, he is just luckier, not really anything remarkable, after all, there is not much to show.

It is not easy to go from ordinary to excellent, it requires lofty ideals, and it requires unremitting efforts and struggles; but it is easy to go from excellence to mediocrity, as long as you are slack, you will become mediocre.

Someone once said: "There is only a line between the ordinary and the extraordinary." Day after day in the ordinary, being a monk for a day and striking the clock for a day is for mediocrity; in the ordinary, the courage to open up, continuous innovation is excellence. So no one is destined to be ordinary, no one is born to be outstanding, the difference is only the attitude towards life. Positivity makes the ordinary become excellent, and negativity makes the excellence become mediocre. ”

Zhi Yueying, who insists on teaching and educating people in the depths of the mountains, is such a typical example of moving from ordinary to excellent. For more than thirty years, Zhi Yueying has silently adhered to the ordinary teaching position and has taught two generations of people in the depths of the mountains. That small mountain village podium showed the breadth of her heart.

At the 2017 award ceremony that touched China's top ten people, the award speech given to her by the Chinese Organizing Committee was: "You have trekked many roads, always surrounding the mountains; you have suffered a lot, but what is given to the children is sweet." Stick to it to have expectations, this is your belief.

Thirty-seven years, the childhood of two generations, whitened your braids. "As a rural female teacher, she has insisted on more than 10,000 days and nights in her ordinary post, and because of a noble belief, she has paid for her most precious youth.

The reason why ordinary characters can make extraordinary achievements is that she is supported by that ordinary and not mediocre heart!

Ordinary people are content with ordinary life, they are calm, not vain, know how to restrain their own sharp edges, can scrupulously fulfill their duties, silent dedication, so they are often extraordinary.

Mediocre people, on the other hand, are uneasy with the ordinary, they are so ambitious, shallow and impetuous, and often adopt a perfunctory attitude towards life, so they are doomed to be mediocre.

I have read a book about the history of Franklin's growth, according to the book, when he was young, Franklin was just an ordinary little person, but fortunately he had a spirit of not being willing to be mediocre and striving forward. His father was originally an English painter and had more than a dozen children.

Due to his family's poverty, Franklin spent only two years in school in his lifetime. At the age of twelve, he apprenticed in a small printing house run by his brother, and since then he has been a printer for nearly a decade, but his studies have never stopped, and he has saved money from food to buy books.

He struggled to earn a foothold in Philadelphia, often with shy pockets and a difficult life. But this young man is optimistic and confident, eager to learn. When he was just an ordinary apprentice, the quality of his work and the accumulation of knowledge far exceeded that of his peers.

Sure enough, Franklin was extraordinary, and he eventually grew into a famous scientist and inventor, and he also participated in the drafting of the Declaration of Independence and the United States Constitution, enjoying a high international reputation.

Rejecting mediocrity is a kind of transcendence in life and a responsibility of life. "The mountain rejects mediocrity and rises from the ground, so it can become its peaks and peaks, stretching for thousands of miles; the sea refuses to be mediocre, and the waves roll over, so it can become its waves splashing around and majestic."

If life can reject mediocrity and abandon laziness and slackness, it can create miracles, achieve brilliance, and achieve leaps and bounds from ordinary to excellent!

-Author-

Pen name: Short literature user 1541, admiring the style of the hermit, so the sound of reading at the head of the bed, day and night. Not only crowned, good friends from all over the world, poetry painting, ascending and traveling. Lying drunk in the red dust, there will be a chance encounter with Junshan Water.

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