Spicy Tales of My Life

Dear Zabi..


This is your soul speaking. Since you have totally lost the sense of rationality i have decided to impart you with some gyaan in attempt to wake you up into the world of reality so that you can see things with clarity.


You are suffering from a disease called Mediocrity... That is what surrounds  most of  the people unless you are an exceptional creature with extraordinary merit. It is ubiquitous. There are many who get used to it. It is not really bad but it is not really good either especially if you are a dreamer. If you have hopes of making it big. If want to stand apart from the crowd. Mediocrity to such people seems like a sickness with no cure. It imparts a deadly suffering onto the soul. Many a time the cause of your suffering ought to be this sick disease of mediocrity. How to get rid of it.? I have put much thought and seem to come up with a reasonable explanation.





Is there a panacea. Some say, one needs talent to beat mediocrity  but the worst part about talent is you are either born with it or without it. It cannot be inculcated no matter how much one tries seems to be the universal accepted belief. Or is it really?


Hmmmmm.. Let us think it this way, is every talented person exceptional?Can every talented person beat mediocrity
Well.. Have you ever seen a person with loads of talent wasting his life doing things far below his abilities. Well if you did then it goes to proves that Talent cannot be the only factor that can make some one exceptional.So one can easily understand that it is not just talent that can get you out of mediocrity.


Then is it hard work that can get you out of mediocrity? well, look around you. Consider a few hardworking persons u know. How many of them are successful in their careers or life? In a minute you will realize all of them are. Even if you find an exception here and there I'd bet u'd never notice a failure in the hardworking lot.


A radical mind amongst you might think of an example of a laborer working in fields who might work harder than most of us but still leads less than a mediocre life. Well laborer's effort goes into training his body not mind. when I say hard work I talk about stressing the intellectual abilities of your mind. Simply put your success in today's world is judged by the might of your intellect not physical strength and a laborer by any measure is way too short of it.


Then what is it that can beat mediocrity?


Since talent cannot be inculcated it clearly leaves us with hard work. But where do you direct you hardwork. Every person in this world is awarded with some talent or the other, many times a mix of various talents. If you direct your hard work on honing that talent to develop some necessary skill which you can sell in this world.. Bingo.. you have made it out of the gutter of mediocrity.


But there is a catch. Talent has a small role to play here if not crucial. The more talented you are the sooner you'll make it out of the gutter. If you are not one of those gifted with loads of talent, well you need one extra ingredient along with talent to make it big. Lots of patience. you might make it slow but be damn sure you'll make it big. perseverance should be the magic word for you.


By now you must have realized that I am preaching the benefits of perseverance and hard work. Everyone know this out of their common sense. But when it comes to implementing this commonsensical thing one will realize common sense is not so common. Well there is a very simple way,


In your life, all things that you do, every choice that you make can simply be divided into two categories,


1.The things that add value to your life.
2.The things that deprive the value of your life.


when i say value i don't mean something that is entirely materialistic. things like love, friendship, happiness also add value to your life. It will not take an Aristotle to understand which thing is what sort.


Just stop things like procrastinating, hesitating etc. which just don't add any value, rather take the value out of your life. Any task you do from the start to the end of your day can be realized in terms of value added to your life. Just follow the simple principle and you shall be on the right path.


P.S: Next time you are doing face book.. just think how much of value it is taking out of your life. Does reading every stupid status update adding to your happiness or frustration? Does checking out a random chick with a perverse eye gives you the warmth of love? Does a stupid FB  application which says some thing like 'find out with whom you are gonna have sex with' is really doing you any good.. hmmmm think.. damn it..