How do you be extrodinary in this ordinary world?

Answer 1

Some individuals are immensely talented or beautiful or extraordinary in some similarly ordinary way, but for the rest of us, we have to work at it a little. In this ordinary world, where very few people live in a sane relation to their neighbors or their surroundings, most human beings seem scarcely more evolved than their uncle Orangutan. Uniquely humane qualities, like the reasonable detachment that makes wisdom and compassion possible, seem lacking from human society, leaving only a fiendishly clever monkey-morality driven by ownership and greed and enforced by fear. And so to be extraordinary in this ordinary world, all a person needs to do is start acting like a real human being. Find a job or a career that means something. Turn your television and your computer off, at least some of the time. Lose the blackberry for a while. Go outside without earpods. Get connected through your senses. It's hard to be a human being, but if God has a purpose for us on this Earth, surely it is to help one another to bear it. With that in mind anyone can see there's a lot to be done. Think about making a difference for others, and forget about getting rich, and you'll be happy, which is extraordinary indeed.