Rise above the NOISE!
"After all is said and done, more is said than done." ~Aesop
Aesop was born in the 7th century BC, but could have recognized that malady of mediocrity at any given time. There's a lot of NOISE!
Noise lives in the masses, where huge groups chatter about maintaining the mundane, sustaining the status quo, and complaining about the current while pining over the past. These masses of meh! need the affiliation of the terminally average. It's their life-blood! They commiserate about all things they deem as rocking their non-sea-worthy boats.
If you took a census, you'd find their populace is made up of the jealous and the lazy, and many who've had great ideas that could have... but never did. They could have ushered in a change, even something minute that may have rippled into a wave. But, the noise was too loud. They lost focus of an epiphany and didn't cultivate a passion, because the fear of breaking from the masters of the mundane was too much to bare. Average lives here and the neighbors are very noisy.
It's much easier to be stuck in the middle of the sardine can where everyone is the same & nobody expects too much from you. In fact, you're ostracized if you try to break from the mold. These are the lemmings who've surrendered their power of individuality, en masse. They clamor for more regulation because they can't fathom taking an active role in it's nemesis... INNOVATION.
Sound familiar? Then rise above the noise!
Be the change you've envisioned instead of waiting for someone or something else to bring it. Get moving. If you're waiting on something external to stir you... don't hold your breath!
Innovate! Do that thing or make that change that inspires you. The noise will always be there. So what! Don't let it deafen or paralyze you. Ignore it and rise above it. If you give in to the noise, you'll just become spiritually extinct and irrelevant with the lot of them.
Take the harder, more rewarding path and reach that place you've envisioned. The dust from the clamor will clear and you'll still be standing.
Give it a little time. The masses will catch up and ironically, they'll applaud you for creating the wonderful new "norm" for them. They'll settle in, as they always do... but don't you.
The applause may be music at first, but will turn back to noise, in no time. If you've still got it in you (and you will)... Rise again!
What are you talking about?
and what are you DOING?!
(...or are you just making noise?)
Rise above the NOISE!
