Average people do average things. Uncommon people to uncommon things. Successful people do the things unsuccessful people are unwilling to do.
I was walking around Disney with the family, and I noticed how drab and average everyone was. I thought to myself, ‘So this is what average looks like. This is how they spend their time.’ Then the horrific reality hit me… I could be one of them. Mindlessly indulging in an average past time. I looked at myself through their eyes. It scared me. ‘But I’m not one of them,’ I pleaded with myself, ‘my experiences have taught me much differently then them. I have a much different style of thinking. My past is anything but average.’ But there I was, side by side with the average American, indulging in an average American past time
So I might not be average if I go to a bar with friends, or go to disney, or travel to vegas for the weekend for celebrations, or go to college, etc. But if my choices continue to bring me to the popular ideas or destinations of the masses, I need to seriously reevaluate my yearning to be an uncommon man who makes uncommon decisions.
The average man is a conformist, accepting miseries and disasters with the stoicism of a cow standing in the rain. ~Colin Wilson
William Dare 