Lameness

I have been hit by a bout of lameness lately, in the fact that nothing I do is extraordinary enough to report to an audience. The mediocrity of life is catching up with me, I am studying and working, where the most exciting thing to occur is the discovery that yes, there is an oven in the Ohmeikan.

The reason this ordinariness is even worthy of writing about is because it is something I have been giving a little bit of thought to. Ok, I also have to confess that in my Lameness, you will get a lot of musings instead of real adventures, but I am starting to think my readership should get to know me better.

In this book I was reading called Three Dollars by Elliot Perlman, one of the characters had an attack of what she called ‘ordinariness’. In the sense that, she woke up one day and realised that she had become just like everybody else, even though when she was young, she had great aspirations, dreams and goals. The reason this struck a cord with me is because the situation is very real to life. When we’re young, the possibilities are infinite, we can achieve anything we want to with a little bit of hard graft and dedication. As time sets in, new constraints materialise themselves and we find ourselves adapting and losing that bit of ourselves which has infinite faith in our own abilities.

We are always told that time is precious, we need to make the most of it, but we go through life forgetting all these wise sayings, for ‘sayings’ are what they have become. They lack real meanings because we mostly only give them superficial attention. What I don’t want to happen is waking up one day and thinking I did not set out to do the things I’d wanted to or that I have not made the most of something. To not have regrets. So here is to making the most of life and opportunities that present themselves.