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The Seven Habits of Stoically Average People
How to stop being anxious about over-achieving by embracing mediocrity (a parody, of sorts)
Ever feel that you are underachieving? Concerned that friends seem to have it all sorted? Sick of being reminded by Instagram of what life could be like?
Then read on.
We all desire purpose and success. The problem is, that much of the day-to-day life is a Sisyphusial existence. Our hopes and dreams are often crushed under the very boulder that we are struggling to push up the (damned) hill.
From personal experience, I can attest to the fact that being middle-aged, middle class and living in Middle England, can life feel, well, pretty middling at times.
At the theme park of existence, less time is spent on the adrenaline-filled rollercoaster ride of success and achievement, and more stuck in the one dodgem car that does not work, ineffectually pressing the accelerator to the floor while enduring the gleeful looks of the people bashing into you as they streak past.
Darn them and their carefree laughter…their time will come.
In the face of a world that is definitively plotting to thwart your every plan, it is important to come to a level of acceptance. As stoic and…
