Why are people satisfied with mediocre?

[Straw Hat Luffy]

Some people just want to do what they can to get through life. nothing wrong with that.

 

[Bless't]

Because true greatness is a deep well that you must leap into and spend eons floating downward into a dark abyss that becomes more stifling the longer you spend in it.

I see you.

 

[HoloGraphic]

I had this stupid argument with a co-worker of mine earlier today about our wage.

For starters I'm not overly excited about my job. I like the people there but the job itself pays peanuts @ $9 an hour and $13 during overtime.

The argument started over him asking me if i wanted to go home and I said yeah "We make peanuts...I'm not geeking over this"

He tried to tell me about our check this week since we've been working overtime this week and I was like

The argument spiraled out from there to a whole lot of stupidity.

Even with that shyt my check was barely $400....shyt is garbage

All my siblings are fairly successful. My oldest sister has a masters in accounting, my second sister has her masters in business (not sure the specific field) but makes close to 6 figures, and my youngest sister graduated college at 20, makes 70K @ 26 now and wants to get her masters and make even more money.

So why the fukk am I gonna be happy with a measly $9 an hour?

Hell I have homies slangin weed making more than me weekly and they don't have to punch clocks.

There's nikkas twice my age at my job making the same amount of money as me

The thing that killed me is the fact the nikka who said this to me is only 25 but seems satisfied with this mediocrity. I don't understand it.

Some people can only make it so far in life. This is as far as they go. Some can't out think the system, for others it's 'good enough'.

If you have ambition that's already 3/8ths of getting it. Not everyone can be a lion or wolf, we need sheep too.

 

[HoloGraphic]

I'll add:

"The harder a man works, at brute labor, the thinner becomes his idealism, the darker his mind."

Thanks for this. I'm constantly wary of falling into that pit. The stakes are high like a cow on stilts.

 

[muse]

Because they're so used to shyt. It blows my mind there's people making only one or two hundred more than me a check with families and shyt.

When you're so used to shyt, average is an upgrade.

Honestly, nobody really "geeks" about our pay maybe because we deal with a lot of shyt. Though some people there really do love the job. But everybody knows our job and our pay ain't shyt

I guess the older you get the more shyt you had to deal with so to them, it's a come up but for our young asses who expected more at this age Xbox it ain't shyt