There's a scene in the movie Labyrinth where the Goblin King changes the terms of his bargain by moving time forward. Sarah exclaims, "It's not fair!" The goblin King replies, "You say that so often. I wonder what your basis of comparison is." When we think we're mediocre, who are we comparing ourselves to? We usually compare ourselves to our peers. We forget everything that happened to make us who we are today. We forget the struggles of our parents, grandparents, great-grandparents, the cavemen, the monkeys, the fucking fish that we used to be once upon a time, and the pile of sludge that once was life on earth. We forget the billions and billions of years that it took to make humans. We forget the struggle to get to the top, where we ARE. You and me, mediocre humans, are at the top of the game across eons and light years. We're not mediocre. Flawed, yes, but not mediocre. Fuck that. We're fucking special.
