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Let’s Give Ourselves Permission To Be Ordinary
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The image above is the antithesis of my whole piece here. I’m adding it to make a point. This is exactly what I am saying at the start of this piece — even on something innocuous like a mug, we’re being pressured to NOT be ordinary! So let’s get into it.
Maybe this is just me… but do you ever feel like the world, society at large, is pressuring you?
Pressuring you to be bigger, better, faster, stronger. To be thinner, happier, healthier.
To be more, to make more, to accomplish more.
It’s a pervasive feeling, isn’t it? Probably thanks to social media, more than anything. Because we compare ourselves to others, don’t we. Even if we say we aren’t, or don’t, subconsciously we still do. It’s our nature to do so.
We see our friends posting on Instagram, on Facebook, on Bluesky on Twitter about getting degrees, running marathons, climbing mountains (literally), traveling the world. Or people we admire getting michelin stars, winning awards and medals, doing all these big, amazing, inspiring things.
