Do something amazing on your nights and weekends. If you're a recent grad, then you probably should revel in the whole reliable-paycheck thing for a while, but it doesn't stop you from innovating and pursuing what you're passionate about on the nights and weekends.

I personally have never looked to work to satisfy my passion (for computers). No matter the job I am working at, I have a steady stream of side projects and try my hardest to keep up with a small bit of the massive firehose of change that is modern computer science/programming.

Don't worry about being average. Many of the people who have created great things weren't that far from average. They just seem like geniuses in retrospect. Also, it's about 5 billion times (give or take) easier to do software these days, you have a huge leg up on geniuses of the past.

Find a project to do that makes you happy, and do it until it doesn't make you happy anymore (hopefully, after it's finished)