Ordinary is the normal state of life, and the attitude towards life is uneven.

"I am an ordinary person, but every ordinary person can live an extraordinary life." -Lu Yao

0 1. Ordinary is the norm of life.

Last year 10, Yang, the top science scholar in Yihuang County, Jiangxi Province, went to Weibo nine years after graduation.

In 2003, Yang was admitted to Beihang University with the first place in the college entrance examination in Yihuang County, west of Jiangxi Province. However, he sent a text message to his father two years after graduation, and then "disappeared" and lost contact for nine years.

2065438+August 2008, Yang's mother was diagnosed with cancer. With the help of the media, she finally found her son and the family was reunited.

Facing the media interview about losing contact, Yang said that he is an idealist and wants to be a physicist. He thinks he can earn millions a year by starting a business. However, after graduation, I failed many interviews, worked as a waiter, sent text messages in groups, and changed more than a dozen jobs, none of which lasted more than half a year.

He used to be a schoolmaster and a "favored son of heaven" in everyone's eyes, but the fact that he didn't succeed after graduation made him unable to face it. The pressure from parents, relatives and society formed a huge hurdle, which made him unable to cross, and he fell in this hurdle.

As he said, "it is painful to admit that you are not a genius."

It is more difficult for him to admit that he is ordinary than to be admitted to a prestigious school.

From childhood, the education we received told us that we should get ahead in life and strive to be a non-ordinary person, so as to live up to our parents' upbringing and our own efforts.

But in fact, 99% of people are doomed to be ordinary from birth. Even according to the "28" principle, only 20% people can be called outstanding elites.

It is the fate of most people to be born ordinary. How many people work hard, they can only become an ordinary person after all.

But is ordinary really that unbearable? Does mediocrity mean failure?

I like a sentence I read very much: some people, although not successful, have no power in the ruling and opposition, but still manage to live as decent ordinary people. Who says this is not good?

It's really no shame to admit that you are ordinary.

Ordinary is the background color of life and the normal state of life.

02. Only by accepting your own ordinary, can you face the future life more calmly.

My college classmate Xiao Ai went to Beijing as soon as she graduated. She warmly welcomes her new life and is ready to open up a new world there.

Her major is wrong. In order to adapt to work faster, she is studying industry knowledge after work and on weekends, consulting her predecessors, taking online classes by herself, and looking for part-time opportunities to exercise and practice.

She worked overtime all night to catch a meeting PPT. In order to maintain her performance, she often takes a month off. But even though she worked so hard, she still felt that she was not good enough until her body sent out a danger signal.

The doctor told her to take more rest and exercise properly, otherwise the consequences would be very serious. Xiao Ai had to quit his job and have a good rest because of his growing discomfort.

At first, she refused to go home to Beijing, feeling too ashamed to get along with relatives and friends. After struggling for two months, she finally let go of the entanglement in her heart and returned to her hometown to find a relatively easy job.

I once asked her, "Would you like to go home like this?"

She said, "I certainly don't want to, but I tried my best." Sometimes, if you are afraid of life, you won't be overwhelmed by it. If you can't be the protagonist of this world, be the protagonist of your own life. "

Although she was not as busy as before after returning to her hometown, she was still very serious and responsible for her work, and she didn't muddle along. I chatted with her a few days ago and learned that Xiao Ai became the small supervisor of that unit because of her previous work experience and good performance in peacetime.

The small supervisor of a small company, although ordinary, is far from herself who was noticed by thousands of people in the flash, but now she is happy and full in this small effort and more comfortable with life than before.

Putting down her pride, returning from Beijing to the third-and fourth-tier cities and admitting that she is not the protagonist in the spotlight, this courage to accept her ordinary calmness has made her career more like a duck to water.

Zhou said that life grows three times.

The first time is to find that you are no longer the center of the world.

The second time, I found that no matter how hard I tried, there was nothing I could do.

The third time is to accept your own commonness and enjoy it.

Accepting that you belong to the ordinary 99% is not to give yourself a reason to go with the flow, but to reconcile yourself with yourself and the world and meet the future life more calmly.

03. Ordinary is the normal state of life, and the attitude towards life is uneven.

A master Ge Yu came to the wonderful conference and left a deep impression on the audience.

Master Yu is a Beijing taxi driver, working for 19 years. But besides the driver, he has another identity-a singer.

Master Yu likes singing at ordinary times. He not only sang, but also wrote and composed his own songs, made his own record, and became the only taxi singer in China who signed a record company.

Master Yu said, "Being a taxi driver is extremely happy for me. Driving a car, taking guests around Beijing and listening to their favorite music can also bring happiness to others. "

1995, Master Yu, who just entered the business, won the Excellence Award in Beijing Taxi Driver Karaoke Competition. Because he loves singing, he used his 1 year savings to change a fever stereo for his car at 1997.

He usually plays his own records while driving, which makes him happy and infects passengers. Many passengers became his repeat customers, and Weibo, who paid attention to his master, became his loyal fans.

Taxi driver, an ordinary occupation, has given Master Yu such fresh vitality. He is doing the most ordinary work vividly and living the most ordinary life meticulously.

Ordinary does not mean mediocrity, nor does it mean mediocrity going with the flow. Even if ordinary as dust and insignificant as feathers, we can dance in the sun and hold our heads high.

This attitude of being unwilling to be mediocre is a more beautiful gesture than extraordinary.

04

There is a saying in How Steel is Tempered: "This is how people should spend their lives. When he looks back on the past, he will not regret wasting time, nor will he be ashamed of doing nothing. "

I think such a life, even if ordinary, is also a kind of greatness.

Ordinary people can also succeed, and they can irrigate their glory with hard work and progress.

Ordinary people can also be different, as long as they decorate their lives with their heart.

Ordinary people can also be great, and that greatness is the courage to love after recognizing the true meaning of life.

Ordinary is the normal state of life, and the attitude towards life is uneven.

Ordinary but not mediocre means that after accepting that you don't belong to 1%, you still love life, keep your feet on the ground and go forward bravely.

May we all be prosperous, see the truth clearly, and live ordinary but not mediocre.