Average: mediocre, of the usual or ordinary standard, level, or quantity. I am no one’s first choice, I am good but not great at anything, I am middle of the pack, living a relatively plain life. Some people are unbothered by this. I am terrified of it. The thought of living an average life scares me more and more as time passes. I don’t want to be average. I want to live a full, adventurous, wild life. I want to keep growing to my fullest potential which I know is much more than average. But how? I obviously don’t have the exact answers (or I wouldn’t be struggling with this) but I do have an idea of what I plan to do in the future to stop myself from worrying about a boring life.

• Focus on one thing at a time. Worrying about a bunch of things at once makes it hard to be successful at the task you have to complete right now.
• Try things you have never done. You may find out you are really good at something.
• Be nice to people. It gets you farther in life than a lot of things.
• Keep learning!
• Explore whenever and wherever you have the chance.
• Don’t compare yourself to others. This is a big problem of mine and it causes me a lot of unhappiness, resentment and other emotions that are not beneficial.
• Do not lose faith. Sometimes I feel like it’s too late for me to become who I want to be but that isn’t true so keep working on yourself.
• Always work hard.
• Let the fear of being average motivate you not shut you down.

A lot of these things sound cliché, but they are only said a lot because they are helpful. I am not okay with being average because I know time is limited. I want to have an impact on people. It is hard to push yourself to grow because it is so easy to get stuck in routines and forget your purpose. I plan to continue to remind myself of what I really want so I force myself to work towards that.