Wednesday, 21 December 2005

Mediocrity and What it is?

Statesmen despise publicists, painters despise art-critics, and physiologists, physicists, or mathematicians have usually similar feelings: here is no scorn more profound, or on the whole more justifiable, than that of the men who make for the men who explain. Exposition, criticism, appreciation, is work for second-rate minds.
- G. H. Hardy
This statement, hit bang on my head. It hit my head so hard. I feel this is not enough. This is the explanation of mediocrity in the best form, I have ever read. Are WE? This is the question in my mind...
Exposition, Criticism, appreciation all these are work for the second rate minds. Then what is the work of the first rate minds?
Creation. What else?
Come on men think. Think high. Think bright. Think as though this is the first time you are. Think as though you have thought like this never before. Intake, digest, assimilate it and put it in your sub-conscience mind that " I am a first rate mind "
Don’t let dreams come down. Don’t shatter them. See others dreams, thought they couldn’t be communicated. Dreams don’t come true just alone by dreaming. Follow the Yellow Brick road, and you shall meet the wizard of Oz. who is the Wizard? It’s you, and who else can it be.
Are we to continue this mediocrity, waste life in this earth for such puny things? What is a puny thing? Puny, it may seem, and yet what we are doing here, I mean, in India, We serve others, rather than ourselves and our family and our country. I believe this is mediocrity. Because of this we come to the conclusion that we don’t have time.
Remember the Mayonees jar. Spend time for the most important things in the world. This world is ours for us to make. This world is ours for us to create. This world is ours for us to live. We rule this world. Don’t fret nor fume, this is what is called attitude.
Attitude and thoughts shape the future. Don’t be escapists. Escapist, try to live the situation and to the current needs.
If you think we are a society, we are. If you don’t think so, we are not.
I know you all are busy. I am very busy. But always I remember the Mayonees jar.
Great minds discuss ideas
Average minds discuss events
Small minds discuss people.
What kind of mind do we possess? Pooh! What a Question is this? We can say; it is the future that matter. But remember, it’s the past that tells who you are.
With broken heart and yet full of determination and ambition, I conclude.    

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