Tuesday, November 1, 2011

"I'm only human."

Well, it's not good enough. Do you want to be ordinary, or do you want to be the exception?
Posted by Eshae at 3:40 PM

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  1. TitoxdNovember 2, 2011 at 2:18 AM

    While I agree with your basic premise, I feel obligated to point out that it can be a double-edged sword.

    While "I'm only human" is too often used as a cop-out and an excuse for laziness, it possible to demand too much of ourselves as well. We perfectionists have a nasty tendency to want to do too much too well too quickly, and end up forgetting that sometimes the expectations we place on ourselves are excessive.

    There is the proverb that says that "Rome wasn't built in a day", and regardless of how much we might strive to accomplish that feat, it is still beyond our limits to do so, as we are only human...

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  2. EshaeNovember 2, 2011 at 3:50 AM

    “Anyone can give up, it's the easiest thing in the world to do. But to hold it together when everyone else would understand if you fell apart, that's true strength.”

    Certainly Rome wasn't built in a day. But the exceptional people who contributed to Rome's greatness were not the kind of people who focused on their own limitations. The moment you accept "ordinary" is the moment that "ordinary" is exactly what you become.

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