Excusing myself from the table of complacency or how to fit out

It takes ten thousand hours to become really good at something. Anything that is. So if you convert that to human life measurements, it takes about five years of doing something for approximately forty hours a week to become really good at it.

So we become really good at [doing] things we don't like.

It's societal conformity. I don't care what society you live in. All the cultures that have been studied across the globe and all of them suppress its members into doing what the whole does. It's rare that one gets to actually grow into something that they were born to be.

Wait a minute, you say. Here in western society we encourage the "you can be anything you want to be" mentality. Mh, yes, yes we do. But where does the definition for "anything you want to be" come from. From my experience it still comes from the templates provided to us by the society we live in. From the time we are born, we get told what to believe in, what’s favorably looked upon vs frowned upon and what goals to accomplish.

Are you really living your dream or are you simply following the scripted vision of society? Aren't we all told in so many ways how to be happy? And what we have to do to be happy. But others happy can't be your happy, can it? I truly believe this is where the overwhelming amount of unfulfilled people come from. We are surrounded by pretentiousness. Not necessarily on purpose either. People are pretending because they do not know anything else.

Those people around us who are doing the things they were told they could be. Becoming successful in a career, partnered up with a suitable mate. So they walk around thinking they have to portray "being happy" because they accomplished exactly those goals society has manipulated us into believing we must achieve, in order to be good at life.

But like I said, it takes ten thousand hours to become good at something. That doesn't mean that it is good for us. I could be the best in anything I wanted to be with enough hours put in to it, but that doesn't mean that that is my calling. I really believe we waste precious parts of our life to wake up to the fact that we don't have to become good at what others are good at. What society informs us to be good at. For all I know people are just faking liking what they are doing to remain in the "I'm doing good" mind set society expects them to have.

I am doing good simply by being me. Standing my ground in a society that wants me to put out and fit in, so it can sustain itself off of my complacency.