Mediocrity: What can be done?

No one is perfect, as they say. We are expected to be mediocre in something, but not everything. Unfortunately, in the Philippines, people do not pay much attention on doing great things. We were supposed to be bad in a few things, mediocre in some, great in others, excellent in more. We were supposed to do stuff other people have never imagined doing. We, in our daily lives, must do whatever task assigned to us with great passion and love. Excellence does not mean doing the job or work perfectly thus doing it with all your best. And this best isn’t just the one time big time “best”, this is the best that is worked for, the kind of “best” that is trained for. You don’t expect Manny Pacquiao to fight the day after you tell him you want to have a fight with him. He will train for months; he will train strictly and intensely. This is what I call doing your best. The reason why Manny Pacquiao chooses to do his best may be because he just likes boxing or because he is thinking of his pride, or whatever reason. Well, we can’t force everyone to love what they are doing simply because we want them to do their job well. But we can make them do their job while having fun. In this way, they will be doing it without the laziness attitude. Before I continue to discuss what to do, I want to explain first why this is such a problem. For some people, their job seems to be unimportant, like being a security guard in a bookstore as if someone is going to steal a thousand worth of books, like cleaning a public restroom as if it is even possible to really clean it, like being one of the many bank tellers we have today as if there were no ATMs. But then everything is made for a purpose. Perhaps they started recruiting security guards in bookstores in case someone might ask a question if they are lost or in case some suspicious looking person goes in and plants a bomb inside the store. They probably hired someone to clean up the mess in a public restroom because it had been so dirty that no person would go inside and stay for more than five seconds. And obviously, tellers were there for the people who want to open an account, to ask questions, to do some business stuff that computers would not understand. Just think, if the three people in these jobs fail to do it, then there could be a lot of people killed or hurt, there could be a public place left unused, there could be tons of people who don’t want to open an account just because of not knowing anything. Now that’s everything’s clear, I would hand out the solution I have in mind. The solution for mediocrity is as simple as enjoying, enjoying what we have and let others enjoy theirs too. Influential people would most likely influence other people in doing such.