Average
Lost
Subpar
Invisible
How easy is it to relate to those four words. At various points in a person’s life they can feel like any of these words. Take it from me, I speak from experience. Most of my life I felt out of place. You rarely hear of a girl from some small farm country leave a relevant mark on this world. Looking at me, the way I dress or hearing the way I speak, its almost impossible to tell that I’m not from here. That I did not grow up in an”American” household. Looking at me, it’s hard to tell that needed a lot of medical attention throughout my life for unexplained medical anomalies. Looking at me, you cannot tell that I am the first person in the history of my country to be born on midnight of New Years Eve. Any person who looks at me thinks that I’m the average American teenager.
With a single glance, its easy to find people who are taller, more attractive, more successful, more goal oriented, more organized, and just overall better than I can ever be. I am pretty sure that a lot of us have thoughts like this as well. But one thing that I have learned from everything that I have just shared with you is that we shouldn’t aim for perfection. We should not aim to be “normal”. And we should definitely not aim to be like everyone else.
Only now, at nineteen I realized,
Why should I try to fit in, when I was born to stand out!