Ordinary Me

I realized I've been going through my life in awe of extraordinary people.

I meet people who have these skills and I say, "Wow, that's SO cool that you're able to do that."  This, in and of itself, isn't rare.  The simple fact is that there's too much to learn and not enough time to learn it.  Yet, I often find myself wondering why I haven't mastered a similar ability.  Their skills is at exciting and disheartening at the same time, so rather than jump on the path and try to get better, I content myself with imagining what it would be like to possess similar ability.

That's a real shit way to go about life.

This was until I made the connection that they are me!  Not literally, of course, but generally speaking, they aren't a pariah, or savant, just a person who took the time and effort to learn something.  This realization is liberating because if I boil it down, every person's "extraordinary" is literally "lots of ordinary:" an ordinary decision, on a ordinary day, over and over again.


Whatever ability I want to gain, whatever I decide to do is a possibility.  Looking ahead prevents me from focusing on the next step, the next decision to get me closer to where I want to be.

This is my first ordinary decision on the way to Extraordinary Ville!*

*note "Extraordinary Ville" is not a real place* ;)