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During my lunch break today, I was reading “Uh-Oh” by Robert Fulghum, and I came across a passage that perfectly expresses my feelings on this topic. He was talking about how, despite not being Jewish, he likes to celebrate Rosh Hashanah each year by planting daffodil bulbs to remind him that we have to actively participate in the quality of the future. He wrote, “If I want flowers in the future, the planting must be done now.”
Change doesn’t happen just by wishing. We must actively take steps to make the changes was want. If there’s something we want, we have to be responsible for seeing we get it.
One of the blogs I follow, Graduated and Clueless, wrote earlier this week about how we must work to eliminate mediocrity from our lives.
In my life right now, in an attempt to minimize mediocrity, I’ve taken on an outside project with some friends that is both fun and productive. I think this and other things I’m working on in my own time will help me get better over time and continue to eliminate more mediocrity that leaves me feeling unfulfilled.
All these projects are my bulbs that I’m tending to and I hope will grow into something I enjoy.
But as the Graduated and Clueless writer mentioned at the end of the post, what we see as exciting today could someday become mediocre to us, since it’s all about perspective. We grow accustomed to the things we do on a daily basis.
For example, when I worked at the college newspaper, I absolutely loved my job. I loved what I was doing and the people I worked with. But no matter how much I enjoyed my situation at the time, it was easy to get run down by the day-to-day tasks that are less than exciting. And almost always, by the time I had completed my work for the day, I was more than ready to go home.
I have mentioned before that driven individuals are never satisfied. If it’s an impossible feat, then why do we constantly strive for satisfaction?
Well, we never know when the weather isn’t going to cooperate. And sometimes we just want to go for a different look and feel.
I’m perfectly happy to plant. But sometimes I have trouble deciding which flowers I want to watch bloom. And tending to them sure is tedious.
