fight mediocrity

Here’s another idea—How about if we actually read books before we condemn them?? To take someone’s word, no matter how much you may respect them, is a sign of someone easily led, and influenced. A weak mind, that can be shaped by the will of the person talking to them.
For instance. Darwin’s “Origin of Species”. Yes, I read it. Guess what? There is no mention of man being related to apes or monkeys in there!
The Koran—No mention of Heaven having the 42 virgins, or whatever. It also declares fire of anykind is never to be used to kill ANY OTHER human.
Only men of a certain age are to engage in war, thus, only they are to be killed, NO women or children or to be involved at all. So the terrorists are breaking the rules of their own religion.
The Koran also Praises Jesus highly. It states that he was a great leader, and Prophet, and sincerely believed what he taught. He just was not the Son of God. The Islam faith has no Son of God.
See what I mean??? Not so bad.

OK. Here it goes.

No doubt everyone has heard of the deaths of Micheal Jackson and Farrah Fawcett. The airwaves are plugged up with up to the second reports of autopsies, concerns, fan reactions, memorials, etc. Among all the noise, the death of a truly brave person goes unnoticed.
  I'm talking about Dr. Jerri Nielsen FitzGerald
 For those of you who don't remember, she was a Dr. at a South Pole research Station in 1999. She found out she had breast cancer. Being winter, it was impossible to evacuate her. with help from the outside, she did her own biopsy, diagnosis, and chemotherapy, all while performing her duties as Dr. in the remotest place on Earth.
  Even after being evacuated and treated, she chose to return to her duties down there.
 Was she a millionaire weirdo? An actress? Just some brave Dr. fighting long odds and beating them, that's all.
 Her breast cancer returned, and she died in Massachusetts at 57. No announcements on TV or the web, just a small obituary.
  As long as the world is like this, there will be mediocrity.

So many ( am majority, in fact) of people work, learn and play far below their full potential. Why? What is to blame for this? I feel it is people themselves. As long as we accept that this is the way things are, and that there is no way to change it, mediocrity, ignorance and complacency will always be around.
Saper Vedere ( Dare to be wise)