The hunger for extraordinary.
Each and every one of us are extraordinary and that makes us ordinary.
Do not let anyone else or external factors define you and your happiness. Find your own way to joy through feelings, not through material things. They can never bring you happiness. Be grateful for what you have and do not focus on what you do not have. If you focus on what you don't have, you will never be happy with what you do have. Dare to be ordinary in your extraordinarity - and enjoy every moment of it.
Make the ordinary come alive. Get to know yourself. Be happy with who you are. Here and now.
Quote by William Martin.
Ordinary or extraordinary, what makes you happy?
1-30 April 2015 I participate in the A to Z blogger challenge, and this post is written as a part of that challenge.My theme for the challenge is Happiness. I hope you enjoy coming along.
1-30 April 2015 I participate in the A to Z blogger challenge, and this post is written as a part of that challenge.My theme for the challenge is Happiness. I hope you enjoy coming along.
A need of the hour post, Eli :) Celebrate the ordinary. Very well said.
ReplyDeleteThank you dear Shailaja:-)
DeleteI read this somewhere, "small minds are concerned with the extraordinary, great minds with the ordinary" :)
ReplyDeleteThatæs a good saying, thanks Shilpa:-)
DeleteLoved your post ! so important to be happy with what is there in our lives; rather than looking at what is not there and becoming miserable..
ReplyDeleteTrue, thanks dear Genevive:-)
DeleteYou make a very interesting point when you say "Each and every one of us are extraordinary and that makes us ordinary". That is worth pondering over. Oh and true beauty comes from within. Beautiful people are those who show their inner glow. Very nice post.
ReplyDeleteThanks a lot dear Suzy:-)
DeleteWhat an inspiring post, all in all happiness is everything! Thanks and nice weekend!
ReplyDeleteI love that poem - new to me. Anabel's Travel Blog
ReplyDeleteThanks Anabel:-)
DeleteNeeded this post in the present scenario, people are stressing out for wrong reasons. Loved reading it.
ReplyDeleteOh, I'm so happy now, thanks dear:-)
DeleteHope more and more of us think like you...great post.
ReplyDeleteThanks Soma:-)
DeleteWonderful post. I try to be grateful for who I am and what I have--I know I'm extraordinary in my own ways, even if I'm ordinary in others!
ReplyDeleteAwesome, thanks Megan:-)
DeleteNot sure where it's from, but I really like that poem in the image at the end. We spend way too much time telling our kids they're amazing, and so special and urge them to admire and to be like fantastic, extraordinary people. It may be awful to say but I'd kinda rather my kids be happy and content than constantly striving for ridiculous, unattainable things that may not be possible anyway (and worse, feel bad for not succeeding at them).
ReplyDeleteI agree - thanks for visiting and for sharing:-)
DeleteThank you for that. The poem at the end is fantastic, and a good thing to live by. My husband is really good at that. Me.. well it's more of a struggle. :)
ReplyDelete~AJ Lauer
an A-Z Cohost
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DeleteThanks for this wonderful post and spot on poem.
ReplyDeleteMy therapist used to tell me, "You don't want to be an ordinary person." For some time, I didn't understand him. When I finally did, I discovered that I wanted to be extraordinary while being exempt from all the ordinary, mundane suffering and living; I wanted a fantasy. It was probably the most difficult lesson I've ever learned and the most important.
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DeleteDare to be ordinary in your extraordinarity:) Loove the post tons, Eli and Hugs:)
ReplyDeleteThanks a lot Vishal:-)
DeleteWhat a profound message there. It is really important to make the ordinary come alive. Loved your post Eli!
ReplyDeleteHappy you loved it Parul, thanks:-)
DeleteLoved this line *Each and every one of us are extraordinary and that makes us ordinary.
ReplyDeleteGood one, Eli.
*Shantala @ ShanayaTales*
Thank you so much dear:-)
DeleteEach one of us are special in our own way and we need to celebrate that instead of waiting others to appreciate us! Great post Eli :)
ReplyDeleteOnly Time Will Tell
True, thanks a lot Swathi:-)
DeleteWonderful post Eli! :) I especially love "Each and every one of us are extraordinary and that makes us ordinary" and similarly, "Dare to be ordinary in your extraordinarity." ;) I find I am both as I am an ordinary human being, but a strong inner drive to do something that will make a big and positive impact - huge preferably! ;) - that came from a biography and later reading biographies and autobiographies. I don't think there's anything wrong with that. <3
ReplyDeleteAwesome, I say:-) Thanks Elly for visiting and sharing:-)
DeleteOur ordinary makes us special, that's how we find our kind of extra ordinary.
ReplyDeleteA much needed thought in today's age of asking for instant everything.