Mediocrity: the choice of a new generation
Got to love mediocrity, don’t ya. I mean you don;t even have to try to be moderate, or mediocre. You can just cruise along in life letting choices make themselves. Letting the ball pass by time after time unless it just happens to hit you or your bat.
I attended graduation at the 4A Big 16 back to back state champions football school in Cherokee county last night. Out of nearly 400 graduates there were only 20 honor grads, and less than half had a B average and qualified to get the free money for at least trying scholarship that SC offers (the hope scholarship, you know tha lottery money one…HAHAHAHAHAHAHA sorry that always cracks me up). The rest just got out of school, halellujah, to go into a world that has nothing for them. I mean the jobs for those who love mediocrity are being farmed out to illegal aliens. And NOBODY wants to work asking would you like fries with that. My youth group kids were BRAGGIN to each other that they made 56, 46, 22, and other Fs on their final exams…of course only if they could sluff it off to…”at least I passed.” Is life pass or fail? I’m confused what happened to the American spirit…. Be the BEST
the army Be ALL that you can be, the navy “you and the navy FULL speed ahead, The marines “The few the PROUD,” the air force “AIM HIGH.” All of those things scream try hard and do the best. I would hate to know that our military guys are out in the field just ho humming around, firing into the dark hoping to hit something. What is happening to the GREATEST nation on earth. I’ll tell you what mediocrity.
The sad part mediocrity is that it gets you somewhere now-a-days. If you show up then you pass. If you don’t you might still pass, unless you fail, and then who cares. Mediocrity in the skills of life will take you far if you can hit a ball, catch a pass, swim fast, run fast, or beat the living crap out of somebody. CAuse that is showing something about the human beast. The animal that is supreme to all other animals. People forgot that the real reason that we are supreme to all other animals is not because of brute strenght or sheer atheleticism, it is because we have the ability to think and reason.
Put a dog outside… if it is cold he will get in his dog house or find shelter, if it is hot he will pant, if he is hungery he will eat his own poo, if he is thirsty he will drink poison as long as it is wet. Put a non-infant human outside if it is cold he will build a shelter and create heat through fire , if it is hot he will invent and air moving machine,….etc We are supreme not because we just are, we are wupreme because we want to be and we have the ability to want to be…. because we were created to create and made to be dominant.
Yet somehow we slump to mediocrity. We just make it thtough another day, hunker down in the face of the slightest storm, and let the ball go by. Life is a one time deal. It should be the best. I lived the best life that I could because I tried to do the best at everything I did. Not, I lived hmm that was nice. Mediocrity does not even allow us to stay at the level that we have made it to in life. Becaue once you reach the point where you don’t crave to do your best, you sink towards the worst.
If you climb a mountain to it’s highest point and stay there for the rest of your life, you will have gone backwards from the moment that you arrives at the pinacle. Things that remain still, though they are strong, they begin to erode. The thing is the mountain of life, ends at the gates of Heaven. Yet we get so far in our life and we thknk, I like it here I will stay a while. The climbing was fun, but now I think this will be my legacy, I have made it here. Unfotunatley your life becomes stagnant, and beins to drift back to where you came from, the troubles arise that have been conquored, sicknesses take hold from when you had been healed before, your fight is weak beacuse you no longer train to fight the greater enemies. You sink into the miry clay and erode to tyour former until you are nomore. Yet you still may make it to the gates of heaven, you will not be able to say climb on my friends and family, because your legacy said this is a nice place to stay, and we will just keep getting by. God wants the BEST you. you should want the BEST you.
So i’ve changed my mind on something:
Don’t just let the ball hit the bat, knock the POOP out of the ball and run as if you’re being chased by a ravenous lion.
In other words: SWING at it SWING With everything you got.
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