#Average

[golden-letters]

the thing is, i'm pathetic. you'll watch me try and try again and again and still be a hopeless novice. you'll grimace with embarrassment when i fail again and again but continue to try and win. and the thing is, i'm pathetic, in the way that i'm a try-hard wannabe who's not really that good at anything at all. but you'll watch me, with pity, as i finally manage to achieve something average, and you'll watch me, as you're about to lose all the patience you have (or maybe your patience is already lost), as i succeed.

[nando161mando]

Average genocide denier

[momentsbeforemass]

Five

(for someone whose five isn’t helping)

Groupthink. Herd mentality. Peer pressure.

Whatever label we use, however we articulate it, we can’t ignore the impact that other people have on us.

To make it specific, even personal, you can’t do better than Jim Rohn’s practical summary,

“You are the average of the five people you spend the most time with.”

Your five are the group that shapes you. The ones that have the greatest influence on you. Theirs are the attitudes and behaviors that you are regularly exposed to.

Without even trying, you will start to think and behave like your five. Eventually, you won’t be able to do anything that clashes with how they do things.

Need proof? Today’s Gospel. With a horrifying display of the power that the five people we spend the most time with have over us.

King Herod had imprisoned John the Baptist for speaking out against him.

John was his prisoner, but Herod knew John was a holy man. And Herod wasn’t a lost cause – because even though he had John locked up, he still wanted to hear what John had to say.

But Herod made a stupid promise. Even though Herod knew it was wrong, and was deeply distressed by it. To keep from embarrassing himself in front of his five, Herod had John executed.

Think about that. To avoid conflict with his five, Herod violated his own conscience. And killed an innocent man.

While most of us won’t end up killing a prophet because of our five. All of us are just as easily driven to avoid conflict with our five.

Today, take a hard look at your five. At where they’re leading you. At how they’re shaping you.

If it’s not closer to God. If it’s not into who God made you to be.

Then you need a new five.

Today’s Readings

[lizzygrantsadgirlblogger]

When I think of the girls he might like I feel so boring and ugly like holy shit

[jokingluna]

[phycoticneutral]

What’s the average sharpness of the universe?

[digitknight]

me recently

[indianrealgoddess]

I'm just an average Indian girl who likes to wear saree

[50044w44s]

In the end it's just you and the fear of being average.

[serpentsillusion]

Someone (me) figured out how to upload screenshots! 😂 it's ✨meme time✨

✨✨🐍✨✨

*Sebastian BUSTS up in the place butt ass naked*

Sebastian: HEY!! JESS CAN YOU TAKE A LOOK AT THIS FOR ME, IS IT NOR-

Sebastian: 😐

Sebastian: I'll come back later.

(Btw.. it's "pretty standard")

*cough* 🤧

[viejospellejos]

Average American

[emberzzstellar]

My heart beats like a drum, like a drum!!

II Taco - S1 (humanized)

It isn't that good, my apologies.

(Edit: also she's supposed to have pigtails, you can't see the other cause it's covered by her arms.)

[annokan]

How tall is Oliver? My guess is 5'9.

Average height, you're close, tho! Around 178 cm (anything related to physical appearance can be answered with that word lul)

[matineaux]

that one time my dad was trying to discuss his severance finale theories and then confessed that he hasn’t even seen episode 7. brother that is probably the most important episode of the series