Life amid Mediocrity
Do you ever feel like you are spread so thin or doing so many things at the same time that you excel at NOTHING?
This describes my life.
I am afloat in the bowels mediocrity.
I do my homework, but my grade aren’t that great. I fix meals, but they don’t look or taste very good. I homeschool, but it’s mostly worksheets and educational videos. I write, but not enough to feel like I am making progress. I talk to my kids, but only half listen because I am busy doing something else. My visiting teaching visits are phone calls on the last day. I go to bookclub, but don’t read the books.
You get the picture.
The remedy, you ask?
There is none. It’s terminal.
Because I am currently doing my very best, for whatever that is worth, and I am not willing to cut a single thing out of my life. I want it all. (Okay, okay, if I had my way, I would happily eliminate the cooking and cleaning, but that’s not an option, unless I want my house condemned by the health department, which I don’t.)
So GO MEDIOCRITY!!!
I am getting somewhere. One little, eensy, pathetic step at time. And that’s okay.
Go mediocrity! Yea for mediocrity! I’m on your team, Melinda. You’ve just described my life. Well, minus the homework, homeschooling… but plug in the specifics of my life and you got it!
The truth is, you’re really not mediocre (hey, I know you, OK?) you just set high expectations of yourself and that’s ok.
Thanks, I appreciate the encouragement.You’re not so mediocre yourself.
Doesn’t life FEEL mediocre sometimes though? Especially when your in the trenches and can hardly get anything done, much less done well? I think when I look back, I’ll see more accomplishment and feel better about it. It’s just the day-to-day that is monotonous. Yanno?