Being Too Ordinary to be Extraordinary

How do you redefine extraordinary? 

You have to decide what it means to you. To look beyond influence and external pressures. To define it, you must search for what you love. Because doing what you love, every day, is extraordinary. It doesn’t mean it’s easy. 

I love writing, but publishing to the public – exposing my inner thoughts to the world and shifting from comfort to vulnerability- that is no simple step forward. Although seemingly ordinary, it feels rather extraordinary. This is where love and passion take precedence over the fear of judgement.

Perhaps, I won’t get far. Perhaps I won’t even get noticed. But that’s not why I do it. I do it because I love it. I do it because it feels good. Navigating those uncharted waters and pushing my limitations, sees the ordinary morph into the extraordinary. ‘It’s better to have fought and lost than never fought at all.’ 

The journey becomes the reward in itself. Where progress, vulnerability, self-reflection, self-enrichment, and personal growth overshadow the fear of failure. 

So yes, extraordinary means ‘different in type or greater in degree than the usual or ordinary’. But, that’s it. You decide how much greater than or how much more different than the ordinary it really is. It may be ordinary to write, but maybe it’s extraordinary to make it public. 

Maybe it’s ordinary to binge-watch series and films, but maybe choosing to consume mindfully – where every plot twist holds a lesson, every character becomes a mirror, and every moment unfolds as an opportunity for introspection – that is extraordinary. 

Maybe having a partner is ordinary, but choosing to love them every day is extraordinary. Maybe – just maybe – doing whatever you love to do and doing it authentically, fully, and wholeheartedly, is extraordinary. 

It’s never too ordinary if you do it with intention. If you do it for the right reasons. If you do it because you believe it’s extraordinary.