Why Would Anyone Want to Be Average?

What it Means to Be No Longer Common? Part 2

Why Would Anyone Want to Be “Average”?

We use words like normal, average, ordinary, common, like my friends, like my coworkers or colleagues and so on.
These words and others just like them are a part of our normal conversation. But should they be?  I want to argue that these words should be eliminated from our vocabulary.

Normal: It speaks of being typical or conforming to your surroundings.  Do you really want to be seen as typical?

Average: It implies you sit in a central position.  It means you’re just like everyone else.

I’ve often heard that you’re the sum total of your friends. If you have 5 friends, try adding up their worth plus yours and divide by 6.  That would be your worth.  Worth in this case could mean talents, skills, financial disposition, etc.  Is that you? Of course it is, whether you want to believe it or not.  Are you comfortable with being the average of your current friends?

Ordinary: It implies that you have no special or unique features that set you apart from the rest.  In essence, there is nothing, not one thing, that makes you stand out.  Would you say you have no special qualities?

Common: It utters that you are a familiar type.  That would mean you are so predictable that every statistic speaks of you.  Are you a target because you’re so common that everyone can anticipate your responses and actions?

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Like my friends: We say I’m like my friends many times as a defense mechanism.  “Birds of a feather flock together.”  What we’re really saying is that I’m making an excuse not to be greater than the people in my circle.  We use it as crutch to remain in our comfort zone and limit our own personal growth. Are you allowing your friends to excuse your greatness?

Like my coworkers or colleagues:  We mention that we have behaviors like our coworkers or colleagues.  This phrase implies that we hide within the crowd to remain a typical employee, even unethical at times. We use it to remain a just-get-by employee when there is something more inside of us.  Are you hiding behind your coworkers?

These words are commonplace and placed upon us at the earliest ages like shackles on the legs of a slave.  In fact, the first and most crucial years of our existence were spent making us fit in-like everyone else. We went through grade school learning to get in line and to be like the rest of the class.  Our family made sure we conformed to normal graces.  They taught us what was politically correct or in other words commonly acceptable.  As far back as you can remember, you were socialized to be the same as everyone else. Same type of house. Same type of neighborhood.  Similar attire. Similar job.

The process works this way.  When a “normal” person interacts and teaches others, what we get is a society of “normal” people, who wish to make everyone appear “normal”.  The devil has played a very good card in the game of life.  He has made us believe throughout time that we should be “ordinary.”  The problem is God made us all to be extra-ordinary.

Why would anyone want to be average?
I did a little thinking about this.  The only time a person settles with being average, mediocre or normal, only occurs when we’re in the presence of others, especially our social circles.  Any other time , a person would never desire to be considered “average”.  Ask yourself this question, why would I want to ever be “average”?  Who sets out to have a goal of being “common”?  What would make me want to be like everyone else?

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