The Secret of an Extraordinary Life
by I have an exceptional life, but maybe you just don’t recognize it.
At a quick glance you might think my life is ordinary, mundane, or “normal”. I have a great job, a wife who loves me, good kids, a dog, two cats, a nice house. My day consists of getting up getting the pets fed, the kids fed, ready for school. I go to work for 8 hours, come home have supper, get the girls ready for bed. By then I’m usually exhausted, but i still manage to fit some time in for myself, and my wife.
Now you might listen to that and say “That’s boring” there’s nothing exceptional about that! But think about it for a minute, walk down your street, how many people have this same “normal” life.
What does it mean to be exceptional?
We live in a reality of relationship problems, divorce, multiple “parents” in relationships, financial crisis, people begging for money. Income classes, people that hate their jobs. People so stressed that they murder others because they hate their jobs. There is no “normal”. There is no ordinaory family. We watch movies and they give us a false perception of life. We think people actually live like “Leave it to Beaver“, or “Father knows best”. Life isn’t really like that. Problems all solved in 30 minutes or less. The world is not like it shows in Hollywood. Today’s TV tries to infuse more reality into it. Take the Simpson’s as an example of how much society has changed.
The point is if you get through each day, and again and again it’s a normal day. Nothing much happens, you have good kids who attend school, who are not pregnant. You’re in a happy relationship with your wife, you’re not fighting all the time. No one is living in a constant state of fear. Everyone is healthy and happy.
How I’m not suggesting that it’s something I’m doing that makes life exceptional. At least 50% of all the good things that have come to me are more ‘dumb luck’ then anything special that I do. I lead a pretty normal life, we all have ups and downs, but I don’t have any extremes. It’s not like there’s a lot of drama.
So having a so-called “normal” life is in fact extraordinary! It’s not perfect, but I couldn’t ask for anything more.
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