RAT RACE

Humans are like fashion. The unique ones are made by the head designer that does haute couture, the commoners are merely designs created by the contract designers of the label.

If anyone has seen the blogs recently, you would notice a massive boom in the amount of effort that has been made to improve the designs and customization of templates. Unfortunately, most of them seem like lackluster replicas. Are these changes made because we truly want to do them or are they made so that we won’t feel left out?

The question is, “When has it come to a point when we need a carrot dangling in front of us before we push ourselves to do something?” Are our actions a reaction from our peers or are our actions molded by our peers. Do we do things simply because others are doing it, or are we doing it because we really want to enrich ourselves? What separates us from being pioneers, innovators and replicas?

It is without a doubt, that by competing, you are pushing yourself to win. No one really wants to take part in a competition and lose. Whoever says it doesn’t matter if they win or not, are usually the losers. Why bother taking part if you didn’t want to win in the first place. But, how is being a replica giving you that competitive edge. IT DOESN’T!

So how do you make yourself a cut above the rest?

Being a pioneer makes you a prototype, being an innovator makes you improve on the prototype and being a replica simply means you lack everything else the other two categories of people possess.

Kudos to those who do it for the right reasons, and for those who are struggling to survive the rat race, I hope you find your muse soon.

Disclaimer: For some apparent reason, this may seem as an excuse for my laziness to improve on my tech skills. I admit that there isn’t a single cell in my anatomy that’s tech savvy( not proud of it though), but I would also like to highlight the fact that this is one race that I do not consider to be part of. The carrot just doesn’t seem appealing enough.