The concepts 'average' and 'extraordinary' are not mutually exclusive, nor do they have to be defined as such, yet it is a common misconception of mankind that they are. Something cannot be extraordinary if it is also average, normal, boring.
I put it to you that though these concepts are man made, and therefore cannot be trusted more than a fish finger could at a lecture on how to survive the jungle could be, that they can coexist not only within the same time, space and relitivity to eachother, but also in the same object.
For example, as a child, we are told we are special, we could be anything we want to be. Of course there is then those of us as a species that demonstrate extraordinary skill or talent, for example Steven Hawking's ability with mathematics, or Beethoven's musical prowess. Each person standing, sitting, standing on their head, is special in their own way. Each life is extraordinary in it's very basic form. Cells must divide, they must do so quickly and without fault, it is the very reason you have hair on your body (those of us with the genetic ability) or the ability to breed. If these cells should fail to complete this division successfully then cancerous cells will be formed, which must then, should they pose a health risk be removed and treated.
The human body is extraordinary, it can fight off infection, it can be trained, monitored, it can heal when broken and it is all run from one central command post, a brain with the ability to learn and exspamd. Knowledge from centuries of observation can be stored and those with interest and talent such as professor Hawking's can improve themselves to skill levels the average person can only hope to achieve!
And after listing and exciting you on just how special we all are, I will say this.
Those things that make us extraordinary, make us ordinary.
Everyone is special, by definition therefore, no one is. This doesn't mean that you, your neighbour, your best friends cousins-sisters-hampsters-friends-human isn't extraordinary, in fact they are! They're alive... Provided they are in fact, alive and not a hologram, and that is extraordinary!
Those specific genes, that specific set of DNA had to be created, with the specific circumstances that the person has lived through, and with the genetic ability to change and grow had to be put together! That's never happend before and it never will again.
And yet, they're still a bag of blood and muscle, held ridged by a skeleton bring driven by a gooey stress ball with the ability to think. And if nothing else, that is what every other human and a goodly number of animals, are too, living on a roundish rock circling a fireball that's not particularly interesting compared to the others in the sky other than it is the one closest to us, that just happend to be able to sustain life. At this time we have no idea if that is unusual either,however we can assume that it is not.
So yes we are all extraordinary! But that doesn't also make us average. being human is to be average. It is to blend in. It is to learn and develop and find the things in the life we have been granted to find happiness in a mundane and unusual world.
Whether you are a scientist, musician, artist, circus performer, adult entertainer, you are extraordinary because there will never be another like you, you are one of a kind. But don't forget that the humility of knowing you are also every other human too, at the very core, a bag of blood and muscle held ridged by a skeleton, driven by a singular organ, is invaluable to the future of our extraordinarily average race.
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