To determine if I'm elite, I must invite comparison to others.
"Comparison is the thief of joy."
I prefer to assume I'm unexceptional.
^this
I for a long time have felt that people who do their best tot prove they are extraordinary are simply afraid of being as ordinary as they actually are.
I used to be like that myself, growing up. But with coming of age, I started seeing the appeal of just being myself and not caring if others validated the 'specialness' i used to seek or not.
If normal is, by default, the norm, then who am I to say I'm not normal? And why would I have to go out of my way to prove it? And I why would I even want to be?
It's like in that Ricky Gervais show, Derek, which I kind of liked. The titular character is obviously limited in his capacities: autistic and seemingly mentally challenged. In one episode a guy tries heavily to persuade him to get tested and confirmed that he is 'special'. Derek refuses, failing to see the point as a label wouldn't change who he is and how he feels or thinks.
Who cares if we're exceptional or not, we're us all the same. And you better make peace with that.
