Are you the best you can be according to you and what you have set out to be? Often we find ourselves caught up in comparison tangles with other people.. 'i can do better than you in this', 'i have a bigger this than yours'... so much that we forget what we are made of. What is it about your very existence that you can perfect by your own standards and call yourself the best at it?
Imagine everyone had a scale of how far they can, say, throw a stone. this would obviously vary as some have more gifted arms than others. It's a given. Say the smallest chap around could throw the stone to the best of his own scale, and the largest chap throws only half as far as he is capable of. Does the smaller guy not have grounds to argue that he is the best stone thrower in some way? Surely it is highly probable that he has worked harder than the big man to become the stone thrower that he, is it not?
You will find those that subscribe to a different opinion saying 'well if the bigger guy throws the stone further then who cares?', rightly so. But in a quest of personal growth the morale of the story is about making the most of what you are regarldess of what anybody else is, becoming the best of what you can be gauging only by your potential. Is it not so? How does someone else fit into the picture of 'Personal Growth'? Is the feeling of self-satisfaction derived from beating someone else at something really worth more than ultimate self realisation? Besides, you will surprised how many stone throwers you will end up being better than if at all you care.
Are you the best?
You need to be able to know your own personal strengths and become the best at them. You are absolutely right T.A.M!!!!
ReplyDeleteT A M nicely put, but i figure everyone's best is to succeed in what ever they do.
ReplyDeleteAGREED! uh read the Art of Possibility by Ros and Ben Zander, they adress that very thing.
ReplyDeleteAwesome way to think but as a whole society isn't great at accepting someone being the best if they aren't doing the best... sad!
so true...so often we strive to live up to other peoples perceptions of ourselves and fail to just be who we are...and in addition we fail to simply live up to bieng the best we can be...we spend too much time comparing and being envious of our neighbour that we neglect our own talents and look down upon ourselves...it's a sad reality...but well put hey...:)"
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