Scattered Puppies and Blue Green Skies

You can do anything. That's the lie my generation was nursed upon. You can do anything. Our parents fed us the breast milk of Olympians and sent us off to achieve well-rounded and prodigious feats all before the age of four. Or at least, that's what they'd like us to believe. Because these days, life is competition. Only the strong thrive, and the meek just survive because in the end you can tell when you're mediocre and these days? mediocre is simply not enough. You have to have not only played a sport in high school but become a master and every team needs 50 leaders right? because who isn't co-leader of their team these days. Oh, and don't forget to add the fact that they were student president, master chef, brilliant pianist, made headmasters list every year, in the GSA HRA NHS FHS and all the other acronyms you can think of. These days? that's just the beginning. If you've invented something that has saved over 50 third-world countries world wide, well you can just suck it because that guy you're sitting next to on the metro every day on your way to your second full-time job at a fourtune 500? yeah, he invented something that saved over 60. And yet we wonder why depression and anxiety top the charts of everyday american problems.
Our world is sick. And you want to know the scientific name of the common cold virus that has us each coughing up pain and exhaustion day in and day out? Human nature. You see, what they didn't teach you in school is that evolution didn't do a very good job at preparing us for the society we went ahead and built anyway. It's still catching up far behind us in a marathon where apparently our bodies were driving cars and our instincts and sometimes minds were simply stumbling along, well-equipped and walking with a broken leg and wobbly crutches. Here we see the lesser-awknowledged Amazing Human Invention: insanity.
 Its all a conspiracy. Our society is covering up the truth and the truth is it's okay to not be "enough".  What they don't want you to know is that sometimes just living is enough. And getting through the day is an achievement worthy of 70 countries saved. Because in the end there is no definition to the word "mediocrity". You just are. And when you slow down and stop banging at the door of fate, trying to nudge it in your direction you may just meet happiness. And damn son, is he nice.