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Mediocrity


This movie is bad.

Yikes.

These actors make it nigh impossible to focus on this stagnant plot.

Like, I know it's rather low budget, but

actors should still... well...

If you're truly passionate, 

if you cannot imagine spending your life

doing something else,

if this is what you know you're capable 

of accomplishing

then why settle for mediocrity?

If you were given the opportunity

to bring someone to life,

to view the world in a new light,

to open yourself as someone who is not yourself,

why would you settle for mediocrity?

If this is your vocation, 

your way of making use of your God-given gift,

your chance to fulfill a destiny,

your guide to Truth,

then why oh why

settle for mediocrity?

I refuse to let that happen to me.

 
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