I am thankful for the amazing family that I grew up with.
As siblings, of course, i'm not sure that any of us thought of each other as "amazing." There are several other words that we probably used, like an average family, to describe each other. My parents, of course, could not say anything bad about their kids, nor would they say anything discouraging *to* any of their kids.
I don't remember a single one of us ever standing out from the crowd, nor any one of us receiving any "notable" honors. Honors, yes! Standing away from the crowd, probably. There just hasn't been anything that made us appear anything other than average.
I do assume that we are average. Amazing, fabulous, awesome, and fantastic people are, evidently, average. (Otherwise other people would find us all more notable.)
Given that we are average then that's a really good thing! That means that there are a lot of really compassionate, really capable, really productive, quite healthy (admit it!) people on this planet. People who are committed to doing their best, being their best, giving their best, living their best. If my family is average then this planet is in a lot better shape than the news would have us believe.
I choose, today, to live my amazingly fabulous awesome fantastic average life in my amazing fabulous awesome fantastically average way. You too, ok?
