naked baby day is coming up, and it'll be a year short of being 25. I've always imagined that being older would be more fun, but alas, I have neither experienced, or sadly, put myself in the position for a more thrilling lifestyle.
An older co-worker sent me a link to a government website to take a peek at federal jobs, and the Federal Bureau came up with potential positions. Although, a job is a job, it seems the more high-profile positions, with more risk are more attuned to my personality. I want more excitement, and I need something that will push me to be the best that I can be. I don't seem to get my fill here. I suppose I can give myself a couple more years working a relatively stable job, and then seek employment where there will be a little more excitement.
My last quote about mediocrity and American democracy seems to stretch across everything. Not only is everything becoming more streamlined, but it seems each individual, if you can even call them that anymore, have a relatively standard lifestyle, work 9-5, or 7-4 (whatever the hours are), gym for a couple of hours after work, dinner, then back to sleep to wake for yet another fun-filled day. Maybe it's not that there isn't any excitement, but rather our lack of motivation to exert more to reach that next level. For the most part, people drone on and on about how life sucks, and work sucks, but does anyone really do anything about it, other than complain? There's hope that that person, to whom each person complains, will be the reactor to that catalyst, when really, it seems, we should be proactively taking a part in the direction that our lives take... instead of relying on others.
Yet, at the same time, we, as Americans, have reached a new level of laziness. We settle for just about anything, and are content with what meets our minimum satisfaction. Why aren't we striving for what makes us most happy? Why aren't we doing what we can to achieve the most that we can?
Maybe it's our upbringing, and being humble, or maybe we're just too afraid to ask for what we really deserve, so we are content with what others decide we deserve. Or we're simple content with mediocrity.
Now that's a sad realization.
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