Sara Spieth
Mrs. Young
English 9
11 November, 2014
The Mediocre Epidemic
Everyone’s mind enslaves them. People’s brain holds them back from achieving their true potential. The plug that holds back humanity’s potential in the 21st century is mediocrity. The cause of mediocrity can be traced back to electronics and machines. People can speak into their cellular device and command it to almost anything. Machines do the work for people. By making dreary tasks go faster, humans lose the desire to strive hard to complete the work themselves. Instead, so many look for shortcuts to complete the work so it is just meets the standards. The world holds America up as the perfect example of mediocrity in society as the majority of Americans remain in the …show more content…
There is a comfort in succeeding while you are not trying. However, it is not really success if you just get through school with all C’s. A person does not get a scholarship by having average grades or being mediocre at a sport. No one is promoted if they just do the bare minimum at their jobs. Hard work achieves success. Just as a person cannot attain their dreams if they do not go and grab them, a person cannot just be successful; one must work hard to be successful. This ‘half-living’ lacks the ability to even be called living. Oscar Wilde, a brilliant writer, once stated, “To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.” Mediocrity is the definition of existing. Living is hard; mediocrity is easy. Living can lead to failure or rejection, but mediocrity comforts people as they can give the excuse, “I just was not trying my best.” It saves people from embarrassment. Nevertheless, a life of mediocrity just is not a life to live. It is worthless, one cannot make a change, exceed expectations, or be remembered at all for mediocrity. Mediocrity is a comfort, but hard work leads to living; hard work leads to …show more content…
Self-entitlement comes from living in the world of electronics and machines that do the work for you. By living in front of a screen, people lose a sense of reality. Their lives become a mantra of ‘Mine’, which results in a loss of friends, narcissism becoming second nature, anxiety, and a loss of trust (Smith). Older generations find that ‘Generation Y’, or anyone born after the year 1979, see this expectation of having a job, a decent house, and being able to support your family and feels they deserve this ideal so they do not have to work hard for it (Foster). They feel the new generation is apathetic, or in other words mediocre. Mediocrity comes from children spoiled with an easy life and expecting the same one’s self. It is not wrong to want a nice life, but it is wrong to feel that one deserves success and only needs work halfway to succeed that ideal. That self-entitlement causes people to stop working hard and settle for
Mrs. Young
English 9
11 November, 2014
The Mediocre Epidemic
Everyone’s mind enslaves them. People’s brain holds them back from achieving their true potential. The plug that holds back humanity’s potential in the 21st century is mediocrity. The cause of mediocrity can be traced back to electronics and machines. People can speak into their cellular device and command it to almost anything. Machines do the work for people. By making dreary tasks go faster, humans lose the desire to strive hard to complete the work themselves. Instead, so many look for shortcuts to complete the work so it is just meets the standards. The world holds America up as the perfect example of mediocrity in society as the majority of Americans remain in the …show more content…
There is a comfort in succeeding while you are not trying. However, it is not really success if you just get through school with all C’s. A person does not get a scholarship by having average grades or being mediocre at a sport. No one is promoted if they just do the bare minimum at their jobs. Hard work achieves success. Just as a person cannot attain their dreams if they do not go and grab them, a person cannot just be successful; one must work hard to be successful. This ‘half-living’ lacks the ability to even be called living. Oscar Wilde, a brilliant writer, once stated, “To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.” Mediocrity is the definition of existing. Living is hard; mediocrity is easy. Living can lead to failure or rejection, but mediocrity comforts people as they can give the excuse, “I just was not trying my best.” It saves people from embarrassment. Nevertheless, a life of mediocrity just is not a life to live. It is worthless, one cannot make a change, exceed expectations, or be remembered at all for mediocrity. Mediocrity is a comfort, but hard work leads to living; hard work leads to …show more content…
Self-entitlement comes from living in the world of electronics and machines that do the work for you. By living in front of a screen, people lose a sense of reality. Their lives become a mantra of ‘Mine’, which results in a loss of friends, narcissism becoming second nature, anxiety, and a loss of trust (Smith). Older generations find that ‘Generation Y’, or anyone born after the year 1979, see this expectation of having a job, a decent house, and being able to support your family and feels they deserve this ideal so they do not have to work hard for it (Foster). They feel the new generation is apathetic, or in other words mediocre. Mediocrity comes from children spoiled with an easy life and expecting the same one’s self. It is not wrong to want a nice life, but it is wrong to feel that one deserves success and only needs work halfway to succeed that ideal. That self-entitlement causes people to stop working hard and settle for