What Makes Everyone Want to be Great?
Those who are great want to be obscure
Everyone is so busy trying to be great; they forget to enjoy where they are.
Great: Considerably above average.
Who wants to be average when he or she can be great?
We are to feed our minds with greatness by filling it with ideas of the greats. Are we to follow the best of the best philosophers: Aristotle, Confucious, or Descartes? Maybe pursue Locke, Machiavelli, Marx, or Plato? If they are the greats of yesterday, then who is among the greats of today?
Interestingly, many of the greats lead lives of obscurity. They hide their greatness and fame as if it needs to be protected, that it might change him or her in some way.
Reading is a pastime that develops the mind. If we are to miss reading great literature, then are we to have missed out on living a great life?
- The Great Gatsby by F.Scott Fitzgerald
- Ulysses by James Joyce
- Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
- Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes
- Moby Dick by Herman Melville
- War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
- The Odyssey by Homer
