You are not special. And you have to accept that it is absolutely ok. You do not have to be the best, the funniest, the most successful - your achievements do not validate your worth, your failures do not invalidate your capability.
Being a big part of someone's small life is better than being unimportant to many people.
Community, wherever you find it, is foundational to self-satisfacrion.
A better way to put it is: If only the best person at any one thing could be happy, there’d only be a thousand happy people in the world. Since there’s more than that, it means being the best at something isn’t a pass to happiness.
That's exactly it! Like I remember back in 2015, almost everyone who was into STEM in high school wanted to be like Elon Musk because they thought that would make them ultra rich and successful and extremely happy as a tech person/engineer, including myself unfortunately. And look where it all went... Just try to be happy for YOU! Of course you should have role models/idols but you should definately not put anyone on a pedestal! Just do your own thing at your own pace, in your own way, with your own ideas, following your own goals & innate compass. Only then can you truly find happiness, at least labour/careerwise.
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u/AncestorsDontLook 13h ago
You are not special. And you have to accept that it is absolutely ok. You do not have to be the best, the funniest, the most successful - your achievements do not validate your worth, your failures do not invalidate your capability.
Being a big part of someone's small life is better than being unimportant to many people.
Community, wherever you find it, is foundational to self-satisfacrion.