We try so hard to be the exception to the norm, but we rarely are.

The faint shimmer of hope that I'll end up in the outliers ... amazing what that drives me to do. The exceptionalness has been drained out. I can't expect it to come from elsewhere - that much is clear. We need to be pulled from this ominous haze of mediocrity.

Had a nice chat with a coworker after work today which brought a lot of insight (and reaffirmed a lot of what I feared) into what I need to do. It was somebody I hadn't really spoken to before; that brought the freshness that I needed. I felt foolish for not tapping the vast knowledge around me. 

Today was a reminder that it's easy to ignore the resources around you, when they're probably the ones best suited to help you out.

Embrace your mistakes and enact change. It's time to grow up.

. . .

And totally unrelated, but I enjoyed this song; I've been on such a hip-hop/electronia fix lately, it was nice to like something that didn't have a thumping beat. (Save the jokes and please don't read into the fact that I'm posting a song that's sung in the first person as a girl.)

Lenka - The Show

I'm just a little bit caught in the middle
Life is a maze and love is a riddle
I don't know where to go
Can't do it alone... I've tried
And I don't know why.

Slow it down, make it stop
Or else my heart is going to pop.
'Cause it's too much, yeah it's a lot
To be something I'm not.

I'm a fool, out of luck
'Cause I just can't get enough

And I don't know why
I am just a little girl lost in the moment
I'm so scared, but I don't show it
I can't figure it out
It's bringing me down I know
I got to let it go
And just enjoy the show.

The sun is hot, in the sky
Just like a giant spotlight.
The people follow a sign and synchronize in time.
It's a joke, nobody knows
They got a ticket to the show

I want my money back
Just enjoy the show

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