The Mere Mediocrity

Nothing is as approved as mediocrity, the majority has established it and it fixes it fangs on whatever gets beyond it either way.

The moment you take birth on this earth, you are in a race. This race is a rat race where you start running since the moment you are born and there is no escape except death. 

Now most of us who are really fortunate as we can still enjoy some luxuries of life but still we cant elude the race. 

This rat race, has a by product which is called mediocrity. I am not social scientist to explain how it really work but here is my thought. As per society norms there can be only one champion. The person who has best of everything, in life, which can be measured in the scale of money. 

and after that there is positions 1 to 10. 

Just after that mediocrity starts and goes till less than very end. Most of us lies in this mediocrity and will never try to be champion(overall) of life as the rat race is too demanding. 

The moment we are born we are already in two kinds of rat race, one which was started by our parents and one which was started the moment you are born. Now parents are already in race so all the decision made by them are influenced by the race itself. for example you needs to study, and theoretically you study all most same kind of books everywhere, so why to make you study in most expensive school? the decision of your schooling, your friends, your acquaintances are all a direct result of their(your parents') choices. Hence you own a part of personality of your parents. 

Now Since your parents are not at top ( i am assuming that average reader is a mediocre), nor at bottom, you inherit mediocrity before you know what actually that means. A child's personality is a mixture of its parents and teachers, as most of the research had proved that both (parents and teachers) had great influence on him. So child is a at most mediocre in his early stages until he starts to understand that what does it means to fail and to be at top. 

The most notable thing is that our society does not actually approve the failures, despite of the fact that most of the leaders who had been unsuccessful earlier but is successful now says that failures are good. In fact most scientist says do not be disheartened by failures. 

Though our text book screams to take risks and get rewarded, in fact the stories also reflect the same phenomena. Once a brave prince took great risk to free a damsel in distress is exactly what we are taught.

But at the same time upon failure there is no one to support that prince and metaphorically today's Youth is that prince who have to win on all costs. 

Upon practical grounds no is no error of margin, by the virtue(actually vice) of TV and Social Media you are already in a pressure of doing exactly what others are doing and hence your chance of actually doing something new or something which can lead to the top diminish rapidly. 

Society actually wants people to be stable financially as soon as studies are finished. The expectation of a Job, stable and financially secure leads strait to mediocrity.

So when you try to become stable asap, you leave the opportunities which can reward you handsomely and can make you reach the top. You ignore the opportunities which had high risk high reward scenario and why you do it is because of your mental conditioning was in such a way that you automatically take decision in favor of low paying certainty than high paying uncertainty. 

Now some countries had a better time like USA in 1800 - late 1900 when the society there actually encouraged its its people to take up more risk and reach the top. 

Also the dangerous mindset of the mediocrity, with which we are suffering has started to seep in our culture and working. When it happens the progress stalls as people focus on whats certain, or whats available. They fails to anticipate the changes which are about to come. 

At the end, i can say that the Mere Mediocrity will someday leads us to stalled progress ( not completely) in most of the challenging areas, though there will always be a few who will defy the risk and move ahead, but that would be select group of people ( even now those people can be counted on fingers). and hence you and me can never be the winner until we shed the whole bloody bulshit mindset.