# This Place Isn't All That Great By:: [[Ross Jackson]] 2024-10-20 There is a strange disconnect between people wanting to think, or thinking, that the place they inhabit is the “best” while simultaneously being observably unhappy and discontent about being there. The place can be one’s home, office, town, country, or planet. It doesn’t matter the place upon which one is focused. No matter the focus, one attempts to assert its importance. There is nothing too small around which one can argue its dominance. Nearly in the same breath, the person will go through an almost infinite list of grievances about one’s status, life, and experiences. One could easily ask why you are so unhappy if it is so great. When questioned, people will likely revert to praise. The fact is, this place, place, isn’t all that great. It’s likely fine but not much more than that. People don’t seem to get that their place doesn’t have to be great for them to be great. There is no transference from the place to the person. Being in or from a great place doesn’t make a person great. People have the capacity for greatness. It needs to be cultivated. It needs to be enacted. The people make the place, and this place isn’t all that great. We could be. We might be. We won’t be if we think that greatness is external to who we are for ourselves and each other. The greatness of a place can be measured by its people's intelligence, kindness, activity, and wit. We score high in only some of these. Through how we are, it is up to us to make this place as great as we assert it is. #### Related Items [[Greatness]] [[Location]] [[Self-Actualization]] [[Happiness]] [[Importance]]