Being Average-Synthesis Essay
Have you ever felt like you’re not good enough or smart and people tell you to quit because you will never succeed? Well I have experienced this in many ways. For me, I take this as a motivation to become the best person I can be. To show the people who said that I will not succeed in things, that I will and that I will succeed ten times harder than someone else would, just to prove a point. But this is not a way to think. We should not have to prove to someone that I am better and I can succeed. Being average should not be something that people do not want to be. Being average is being yourself. The world today tries to tell the society that you have to be an expert and intelligent to succeed in this world. That you need A’s in every class or you’re not worth our time. That is not true. There are many people in the world today who did not have the best education and are doing just fine today. Because they are being themselves.
People tend to not understand the definition of average. People see
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Because perfection does not exist. Everyone is bound to make mistakes in their life. Therefore, they cannot be perfect so they are average. Parents and family members tend to tell children that they are special and that they will do special things in the future. Which, yes, this is true, but special is not the proper word to use. Because “if everyone is special, then no one is: if everyone gets a trophy, trophies become meaningless.” (McCullough, par.11) As you see special and perfection is cannot be a thing in this world. We can only be the best person who we can be and that is being average because we all are average. There is nothing wrong with that. Because in the end it matters how someone comes out of a situation and puts that towards their life in the right