"Your a keener", "Don't work so hard, your making us look bad" are just some of things that people say to each other in the presence of someone who is working toward mastery and not accepting the norm. Why is this? Are people just lazy?
I don't think laziness is always the answer. I beleive people have become a custom to doing just what is required and nothing else. I have witnessed this a few times lately in my professional life. I have been asked why I'm doing a certain task when I don't get bonus pay for doing it. My response is that just because I don't get "bonused" for it doesn't mean it doesn't need to get done. The fascinating thing is to watch the expression on their faces change as I tell them this. They have become so accustomed to doing what is just required that to do more and not get paid is mind blowing.
The disturbing part about society today is that if your doing more than is required, your almost shunned by your peers for it. I don't like where society is and has become. I wasn't raised this way by my parents.
I try to raise my children the same way and I can tell you its very difficult to do in the current state of society. However by living my life not accepting of normalacy has helped my children to see that normalcy is not the right path.
A life of mastery will serve them posativly in their life as well as mine.
Ian Repay
Student of Silent River Kung Fu
Stony Plain, Alberta Canada
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