1. extra-ordinary isn't quite what a majority of people think it to be
2. it's more common than the word suggests it to be
your looks don't make you extra-ordinary.
and if you think about it a bit longer you might realize you're looking quite ordinary by trying to look extra-ordinary. it's just how it is these days, too many people try to be extra-ordinary.
just live your lives, be the best you, you can be. no need to be something you're not. to be extra-ordinary.
well then, if so many people are trying to be extra-ordinary, doesn't that make most of the ordinary people extra-ordinary. yes, most of them are actually just ordinary and there's nothing wrong about it, people who don't care about crap like that lives a restful life.
where I was getting with this is..can it be that a lot of people who are considered to be weirdos, to not fit in or to be monsters, are the ones we should call extra-ordinary ?
aren't they the ones that are 'going beyond what is usual, regular, or customary'
I feel like the word extra-ordinary is tossed around too much for the wrong reasons...
do the things you love and everything will turn out amazing.
You made me think (and thus exist, if we are to believe Descartes). What does ordinary and extra-ordinary mean to the individual himself?
ReplyDeleteIt is likely that one thinks that something is ordinary because it is a PART of oneself or oneself entirely. Let me make an example. A wise man might look extraordinary to a fool, because knowledge is not a part of existance to the fool (hypothetical and arguable situation, I know, but it's late and I can't think of anything better), thus it looks amazing or extraordinary to the fool himself, but it seems simple to the wise man.
So, those who seek to change themselves to become extraordinary are not being themselves. They are slowly removing parts of their 'true me' (another philosophy of mine, but it can probably be attributed to someone that lived earlier than me, as is often with philosophy and thinking) and filling them with instinct, thoughts, emotions, needs and expectations of others. They are trying to fill in a mold made by others. Only that which seems boring, usual and ordinary to oneself is actually extraordinary to others, because they are not a part of You.
(I hope you have some kind of message system when someone posts a comment on your blog).
Quod erat demonstrandum.
P.S. You might be wondering how I found you. I shall keep that to myself until (or if) the time comes.
Stay virtous.
I don't have a system, but I will be getting one now :nod:
ReplyDeleteI had to re-read my post and I can see where this idea came from. and I totally agree, these days you can see people trying to look like one person or another, hoping to look as extra-ordinary as the person they are looking up to or to look as extra-ordinary as they see the person they are looking up to (hopefully my English is good enough for you to understand me correctly)
I myself stumbled upon number of people who are trying their best to look extra-ordinary, but you can see how uncomfortable they feel out of their real selves
I hope you haven't stopped checking this for my response
I have no problems with your English. It's above what I usually see on the Internet anyway.
ReplyDeleteThe people who try to look like others (namely, fans of famous people/bands) are sheep, unfortunately. They sort of become a part of an... autocratic rule. They will follow their idol, do and become what they must just to be similar to him. Of course, if the idolized one realizes it and has malevolent intentions, he can play around with the sheep. Hopefully, that doesn't happen way too often.
People who try to be someone else will always struggle. You cannot feel the emotions of others. You cannot steal someone's mind. The body doesn't matter here. I find that thoughts and emotions make a person who he is. They cannot have the most important part of this equation, yet they try. Hopelessly. They cannot fully know anyone else (aka, the 'True Me', hidden deep inside us, not blocked my thoughts of yourself, instincts, thoughts of what we think others think of us and the thoughts of other people). What they do not know, they fill it in by themselves. Like a mix. A part of the liquid in the jug is the real person (albeit, I find it hard to actually KNOW someone), the other part is filled by us (or them) with our (theirs) expectations, hopes, thoughts and emotions towards the one person. But that is not him. And he is not us. Becoming someone else is a lost cause.
Now, the biggest problem is when people look at works of artists and inventors, thinking: "Wow, I could never think of that! My ideas are simple and plain." In reality, most of the time people just put boundaries around themselves and never bother to break them. Because of a belief. And while there are simple and plain ideas, they are usually not what people think they are. "Simple and plain" ideas make people think they are inferior (and while they sometimes are, you cannot compare the classic thug to Leonardo Da Vinci, at least in the sense of accomplishments), thus giving them the want to be someone else (become greater). It could be for different reasons, but the post is getting really long, so I'll save it for later.
I, for one, tell myself that I can do everything and tell others that I can do nothing.
Stay virtous.
you're right, the other day my parents and I were talking about something similar, and my dad was talking about really knowing other people and how he thinks he still doesn't know his wife completely even after over 25 years of marriage.
ReplyDeleteit's an impossible mission to become someone else instead of becoming yourself, you can never know which part of him makes you see him as extra-ordinary.
on the other hand, a person can become another himself while trying to look like someone else. as you said, a person might try to look and act as someone he admires, but he can never copy him completely because he can't know everything that makes him the way he is, but when he starts filling out the empty spaces with his own ideas of what makes the person he admires extra-ordinary he becomes yet another person, some other himself, just an upgraded version with some features of another person he admires.
I myself have problems with creating at the time, I started doubting in my ability to create something unique, but I might as well be so in love with the type of art I am doing that I might just start doing anything just to be involved in it, as one person said, it's the best way to stumble upon a new idea
It is already a tough mission to completely know yourself. Everyday you just might find something new in yourself. You need to experience both the fall from grace and the fly to the sky to learn something. You cannot learn just from one side (as from my short essay 'Judging the Systems'), you need to experience the 'other' side too. Knowing yourself is a rigorous and, sort of, brutal test. You have to be ready to experience the worst (or at least the worst you can reach without killing yourself). You cannot spend all your life putting someone else in different situations and taking notes. Well, you can, but where would you find such a test monkey and why would you waste your own life like that?
ReplyDeleteI'll share my thoughts on art and creativity. First and foremost, any 'art' done for the sake of gaining money (as in the main goal being to sell it) it is NOT art. It is a product. Art cannot be driven by greed. The next time you're on wikipedia, try to research Greek (namely Athens) pottery and how it all went downhill after it got commercialized.
Similarly it is with creativity. It should be sparked either from another piece of art or from emotion (which, incidentally, is the basis of art). Creativity can also be sparked by altered states of consciousness, which is found quite often in the modern world. I, myself, find my creativity in a few old pieces of art (and mathematics) or draw/write about anything and gather topics for other art. Or I consult my subconscious (interestingly, it might be sometihng similar to Socrates's daimonion), but that is usually left for more definite decisions.
Stay virtous.
I find that for me looking at other people's art works best. It works as a spark to make something more improved or just a completely new idea, but the one you were looking at the started it.
ReplyDeleteOr actually lying down in my bed and trying to sleep also helps, just yesterday I came up with ideas doing that, out of nowhere actually.