Alison (my wife) lives a life that some would call “ordinary”. She’s a middle school teacher. She loves routines. She orders the same thing at restaurants. She’s on her third watch of Pretty Little Liars. She doesn’t feel drawn to risk or change. She can mostly do the same thing every day and be happy.
It all depends on the why! Being extraordinary should be the outcome of purpose. Being in the moment gives relief to the ordinary. Your wife found her purpose long before you did.
Your life sounds great! You and Alison both sound great! Maybe the journey to get to where you are now is the lesson. Embracing being fully you, as you are, enough.
The timeliness of this article was too serendipitous for me again and so beautifully stated. Thank you for this and excellent work! Couldn’t agree more. Stability, slowness, and the mundane and ordinary are extraordinarily beautiful.
I relate to this a lot. I have forever had a terror of being ordinary, and it's a somewhat new thing to discover the immense relief and joy in finding out that being ordinary is actually more than OK (parts of me still resist this though!)
It all depends on the why! Being extraordinary should be the outcome of purpose. Being in the moment gives relief to the ordinary. Your wife found her purpose long before you did.
I’m on the path of finding this courage too… tired of a lot of things
Your life sounds great! You and Alison both sound great! Maybe the journey to get to where you are now is the lesson. Embracing being fully you, as you are, enough.
The timeliness of this article was too serendipitous for me again and so beautifully stated. Thank you for this and excellent work! Couldn’t agree more. Stability, slowness, and the mundane and ordinary are extraordinarily beautiful.
I relate to this a lot. I have forever had a terror of being ordinary, and it's a somewhat new thing to discover the immense relief and joy in finding out that being ordinary is actually more than OK (parts of me still resist this though!)
Beautiful. Thank you for sharing 🙏🏻
Can I be ordinarily extraordinary? Or is the opposite better?