Ordinary... Please, no.

I was just sitting at my desk, enjoying a little Pandora playlist, and Ordinary by Train came on. The lyrics...

Whose eyes am I behind
I don’t recognize anything that I see
Whose skin is this design
I don’t want this to be the way that you see me

I don’t understand anything anymore
In this world that I’m tired of
Is taking me right up these walls
That I climb up
To get to your story
It’s anything but ordinary

And when the world is on its knees with me its fine
And when I come to the rescue I get nothing but left behind
Everybody seems to be getting what they need where's mine
‘Cause your what I need so very but I'm anything but ordinary

Can you save me from this world of mine
Before I get myself arrested with this expectation
You are the one look what you’ve done
What have you done?
This is not some kind of joke
You’re just a kid
You weren’t ready for what you did

And when the world is on its knees with me its fine
And when I come to the rescue I do it for you time after time
Everybody seems to be getting what they need where's mine
‘Cause you what I need so very but I'm anything but ordinary

I think I'm trying to save the world from you
You’ve been saving me too
We could just stay in and save each other

I'm anything but ordinary
I'm anything but ordinary 



This song, and the word ordinary, started replaying in my mind, over and over. The opening verse is so close to how I'm feeling today... like I don't know myself, I don't understand life, I don't know (or like) what I'm seeing.


No one wants to be ordinary. Like Mena Suvari's character said in American Beauty, "I don't think there's anything worse than being ordinary."

So how do we break out of the ordinary cycle? How do we become extraordinary when we're stuck in a rut?