Beyond

As I sit watching the last few episodes of How I Met Your Mother, I have to come back to this Thought. I've used Barney Stinson's famous saying before in a post, but I wanted to come back to it today. You see, tonight is one of the famous Cup Games between FarmHouse Fraternity and Alpha Gamma Rho Fraternity. As a member of FarmHouse, I have been getting excited about this for the whole week.

You see, in order for us to be successful, we have to move beyond the ordinary. What is this beyond? Some say it's extraordinary. Stinson would call it legendary. No matter what you call it, it is the same idea.
 Have you ever been beyond ordinary? I think everyone has at least one of those stories how it just seemed like everything clicked. Perhaps it was in a competition. In my own life, I've felt that experience while playing piano, while acting and even while teaching. For each person, moving beyond the ordinary, to the legendary, means something different.

In order to succeed, must stop being ordinary. No matter the effort required, we must go beyond. In order to succeed, we must be legendary.

Legendary

I suspect that many people have a pretty good idea about the origins of this picture.  If you watch the TV show How I Met Your Mother, you know that Barney Stinson is noted for 'suiting up' because it's going to be legen- wait-for-it -dary.  What exactly is going to be legendary is the big question.

What's legendary in your life?  A legend is typically something that is elevated to almost-folk lore.  It's that awesome that it's almost too much to believe.  So perhaps a better question is this: What's your legend?

I know in my own life, I often struggle with this.  It's an innate human desire (in my experience) that we want to have some effect, leave some sign behind.  As I've grown to be an upperclassman in my fraternity, the idea of my legacy and legend comes up.  Am I being the kind of person that people will remember?  What can I do so that people remember me?  Perhaps a legend isn't an event or some act that you completed.  Maybe it's the people around you.  What am I doing for the people around me?

This summer, I've had the genuine please of becoming friends with a truly outstanding group of people.  Within the second outing as a group, we were all laughing and joking like we were old friends.  The more I think about it, these people, and everyone else around me, is my legend.  Maybe, my legend isn't someTHING that I leave behind, rather, it's someONE.  In the end, people don't remember what you did, they remember how you made them feel and how you helped them.  What is YOUR legend?