What Is Being Average? What Does Being Average?

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Is it okay to be average? What does being average even mean? The Webster’s dictionary defines average as undistinguished and ordinary. Which to me, means that someone or something is not one hundred percent right or correct, but is not one hundred percent wrong. It is like being in between bad and good, or wrong or right. It can compare anything to another object and show its positives or its negatives --- the way someone scores on test, the way someone is judged, the money they own, or even how popular someone is. Throughout my life I have always considered myself to be average. Furthermore, I found out that average was not always the worst quality, but it also was not the best quality to have. I learned that it is the way you use or see the word. Someone else can see it in a different way than I do, but I see its good side and bad side throughout my life so far. When I was a little kid, I never thought I was different from any of the other children. I knew I was not the smartest kid in my class or the fastest kid on the playground, however I was not the most incoherent or sluggish child either. The first time I …show more content…

People do not really know how to judge you, consequently I realized in school they kind of just leave you alone. Which is acceptable with me, I learned to live with that, even growing up that was how I acted, just being average. I did not want to be popular because I did not want everyone knowing my personal life and details. I did not want people to judge me because of a mistake I made. I like being average and I also like the small number of friends I have because of it. Yeah, I might not have expensive clothes or a lot of money, but I get by and I will always be average throughout my entire life. I make the best of everything and I do not want to change who I am. I hope whoever wants to change their average from being either below or above, will change because it feels good to just be

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