Achieving AWESOME
I had an interesting exchange on Facebook the other day about the esoteria of my perspective on being AWESOME, on striving to be more AWESOME, and the like. He brings up some good concerns about this mythical goal where everyone is giving their best effort every time, where there is no mediocrity, where crapulousness is gone. In this state, with everyone being AWESOME all the time, does that become the new standard? Thus defeating the purpose of AWESOME in the first place?
I had to think on this for a while, but my initial reaction I believe is correct: as a collective equilibrium is attained, it must further evolve. So once everyone becomes AWESOME, the “standard” for defining AWESOME must be raised.
In this continuum, is it ever possible to reach a perpetual state of AWESOME?
I’m not sure. I think the way we look at this continuum is important, however. If we consider this quest for AWESOME purely a linear path toward achieving a goal (despite how impossible and/or subjective this particular goal may be), then I think we lost focus on what’s most important: the drive involved that motivates us to be AWESOME. I think it is this drive – or in more cliched terms, the “journey being more important than the destination” – that bears more attention.
The galvanization of oneself to achieve that which is truly AWESOME… well, that’s a tough thing to qualify or quantify. And I suspect it’s different for everyone.
So get achieving, people. Time’s a-wastin’.
{Image H/T Seth @ Dark Zero.}
