Being Average...

• Average is a child who makes a fake signature in his report card at school, so that he can escape the wrath of his parents.
• Average is an author whose articles are full of plagiarism.
• Average is a professional who believes that Wikipedia and Google are the biggest inventions of the 21st century.
• Average is a judge who uses indiankanoon.com to refer to past judgments.
• Average is a doctor who issues fake medical certificates for just Rs.100.
• Average is a parent who goes to drop his children to school everyday.
• Average is a son who calls his father at the end of every month asking him to send extra money.
• Average is the professor who brings a print-out of the topic which he is going to teach in class.
• Average is a guitarist who uses the same strumming pattern in almost every song he plays, and still manages to impress people.
• Average is an old man who does not leave anything in his will for his children to fight for.

A person can not avoid being average. We are surrounded by people who are average. The advantage of being average, you see, is people genuinely like you. You are able to do things with ease, without really worrying about petty stuffs.

However, this does not mean that we must always be regular. It robs of the chances to become extraordinary.  Some men are born regular, some achieve regularity, and some men have regularity thrust upon them. In the republic of mediocrity, genius is dangerous. We can not avoid being average but we can always avoid being common.