The words are so powerful and enlightening.
The title is so good that it just stuck in my mind. I watched the episode in its entirety and took quite a few notes.
I wanted to share it with you at the beginning of the new year, so that we can all accept the ordinary, but not fall into mediocrity.
Kang Hui said: In my opinion, the difference between ordinary and mediocre is that, if a person's life is an ordinary life, then he can live as he accepts, or at least as he accepts. But a mediocre life can be lived in a way that one hates without noticing.
This distinction is important, and it makes me reflect on myself as living progressively into what I hate.
My current job is something I didn't like before I started, so why did I do it for 3 years? Because it's a job that gives me a stable and good income, I'm not rushing to the value of the work, the meaning of the dedication and choose, I simply for the silver a few taels, can let myself live a slightly quiet life.
Then I got what I asked for, why am I not happy? Because I don't want to be stuck in a state of boiling frogs, I don't want to trade my time for this peace of mind and stay in a job where there is no growth and no joy in the long term, and my mind has been struggling to fight.
I don't want to spend my short life in a job I don't like and don't deserve, than to make money in a stable way, and to get married and have children in a routine way, and accept the future life of the old and the young. I prefer to be free from the constraints of the world's rules and regulations, and live the life I want, even if it's a mediocre life, but at least, I am satisfied and happy.
So what kind of interesting and meaningful work life do I want? Do I have the ability to get there? And if not, what can I do to make myself match it? These are all things I'm thinking about and exploring.
And do these musings make sense? There is, because then I won't go down the slide of inertia and unknowingly lose the luster of my life and fall into complete mediocrity.
There's a quote from Kang Hui that is very inspiring to me:
In my opinion, accepting that you are a mediocre person does not mean that you can give up on the efforts that you should have. You can have some compromises with yourself, but it doesn't mean surrendering to yourself on that.
If you haven't done it, tried it, you're not actually qualified to say give up. If you haven't charged at all, haven't gone for the kill, then you're not qualified to say surrender either.
We're actually competing every day, so we do have to make some compromises at times, but I don't like it to become an inertia.
So, ordinary ordinary us, do not be discouraged , have the choice to compromise, have the bottom of the life, you can still create the life you want.
May *** encouragement.