I must be the most average guy I know. Nothing sticks out! Average-looking. Average height (5"9). Average weight (156 lbs). Average hair (brown, straight, pretty much all still there, despite what Brigitte says). Average eyes (dark brown). Average intelligence. (Okay, maybe a tad below, but not Neanderthal). Average habits (addiction personality, but only averagely so). Average musician skills. Average artistic skills, despite five years of art college. Average writing skills. Average cooking skills. Average chess skills.
This is not good, people! I want to be number one in something!
Anyone play Monopoly?
Bologna! Our ChefNick is way above average!
ReplyDeleteAaaahh, sometimes I don't feel that way. It seems that no matter what I do, someone is better than me.
ReplyDeleteI suppose in true psychotherapeutic fashion, I should concentrate on what I AM superior for!
Like, I can read! I'm very good at reading. And I can walk better than Christopher Reeve. Oh, wait a minute -- he's dead.
Plants like me!
Already the positive "vibrations" are flowing through my soul!
And drinking beer -- you've simply never seen anyone better at it.
You're right, Qaro -- it's GOOD to be POSITIVE instead of negative all the time.
But my knitting skills are average, my omelette-making skills are average, my quantum-singularity identifying skills are average, my figuring out the value of Pi to 234 digits is average . . . you name it! Average!
You, on the other hand, are indeed superior.
Thanks.
Thanks.
ReplyDeleteMy beer drinking skills are terrible. I think I've developed an allergy against it. It's not as fun as it sounds.
You have average knitting skills? Awesome! Wait, a lot of people don't know how to knit.
Ok...philosophical tangent-rant...
ReplyDeleteFirst off...I know you realize that a very hefty percentage of our society wouldn't be able to read--err, excuse me---UNDERSTAND a very hefty percentage of what you write. That alone makes you above average, under the assumption that you yourself understand what you're writing. But, of course, I know you do.
REMEMBERING what you write...no...completely different conversation. Don't get me going.
Anyway...
I find that most people that "think" they're average...are usually above average. And people that are above average are usually misunderstood because the people trying to understand them are the ones that are merely average or below.
To quote Albert Einstein...
"Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds."
I love that.
Anyone that doesn't get it or needs a dictionary...need not apply.
Qaro,
ReplyDeleteI was kidding -- I don't have a clue how to knit. But I'm sure if I did I'd be average at it!
Foodie, you are so right. It seems the dumbing-down of America is almost complete. Both of you are supremely talented writers, but you are definitely not the norm.
I guess I'm not the norm either, but it's just by virtue of being different.
Hey, that's catchy! But I'm lazy -- I don't particularly desire to be superior in anything.
I'm very happy to be average! Less work!