Joshua Stewart

Landing Mediocrity Joshua Stewart

Landing Mediocrity is the heart wrenching, hilarious, and moving tale of an American nobody. Joshua Stewart is middle aged, middle class, and mostly unspectacular. Passionate, intense, and hopelessly romantic, he has spent his life chasing a love that eludes him - an overwhelming, hit-in-the-face-with-a-brick kind of love. This endeavor finds him in an exciting and promising relationship with Mia, the woman he wants to spend his life with, right up until she breaks his heart. While reeling from the breakup, his best friend Buster (the Black Lab) passes away. His grief over Buster and Mia dovetail into a morbid examination of the sorrows and disappointments of life. He mourns opportunities missed, time's passage, and loves lost. Filleting himself open with raw and honest confessions, he illuminates how a handsome, insightful, hilarious man became so disillusioned that he struggles to carry on. This unfiltered account of his oft-misguided efforts to fight a lifelong pull towards inward collapse is presented with powerful emotion and biting wit. Through profound observations and moving philosophies, one man's narrative of an unfolding midlife crisis speaks candidly to the human experience.