Hello, my name is Hannah, and I'm pretty mediocre at just about everything.
I'm no prodigy. I didn't begin playing Mozart pieces at age three. I wasn't the class valedictorian. Most of my trophies were for participation. I haven't found a passion that has kept me hooked for very long. In fact, if you were to ask me what I'm passionate about, I wouldn't have an answer for you. So I'm not the best at anything, but I've found out that I'm average at just about everything.
I really enjoy life and wherever it happens to take me that day. I love to art, music, sports, school, writing, traveling, you name it. I'll try just about anything, and I'll pick up on it quickly, but I'm never the best. And that's okay.
Well, at least I think it's okay. Once you get into high school, people start asking you all the time what it is that you want to do with your life. What are your passions? What career will that lead to? And they'll tell you that you can't do everything and to focus on your "one thing". Your passion. If you're like me and find yourself being pretty mediocre at most things, you'll change your mind a lot. There have been so many ideas that I've had for my future, and each of them makes sense as equally as they don't make sense. If I've confused you at this point, it's probably because you knew you wanted to be a teacher or professional athlete or doctor since the age of seven.
I really struggled for awhile with trying to figure out what my passion was because I believed that whatever my passion was would define me. It doesn't. And it doesn't define you either. You aren't the athlete, the nerd, the artist, the musician, or whatever title you've been given. Your identity isn't found in those things. My identity is found in Jesus Christ. And I have learned to really love being able to do almost anything I want pretty easily because that's how I was created and wired. We are all made so uniquely, whether you have your one passion or you collect smaller passions like me. Learn to enjoy the doing.
So I'm mediocre, and I think it's a talent in and of itself.
