User:Drl1986

Hey Guys

(Just a note. I posted this on the Talk of the Mediocrity Principal, I'm posting it here so that my discussion can get a wider audience! :-) love to here from you guys. thanx.)

I want some insight into the whole meaning of mediocrity. The psychological (I'm calling it this for the lack of a better word) side of being mediocre.

I feel that being mediocre is truly an unforgivable sin, to put it lightly. Since your personal being and character depends on your belief in something or any given principle. Therefore being mediocre, being a person that does not stand up for what they believe in, your are sinning against yourself?

But for me, the worst part about being mediocre, is people who moan and complain about something, but yet never have the guts to stand up for themselves, to let them be heard. Some of the great events in life would not have come to pass if people were mediocre. Where would South Africa be today if there wasn't a person like Nelson Mandela who stood up for what he believed (or still believes)in? Or people like Martin Luther King? Would the Renaissance have happened if mediocrity was a principle or so widely practised?

I want people not to be afraid of, or for that matter ,ashamed of what they believe in, to stand up, make themselves heard, to be controversial, if the end goal is that at the least, you could sleep at night knowing that you stood up for yourself.

A parting note - a person that says nothing, has no right to moan or complain about something.

I would really like to hear other people's opinions, so go mad.

Regards all the way from sunny, loving and not so mediocre South Africa

DRL1986

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