Why did no one tell me…

….. life was gonna be this way.

Why did no one tell me life is easier if you are average at things and don’t have this hunger to be better than what you were yesterday, this urge to do well in school/college, to excel in your career and life in general?

I am not saying I am the best or even close to excellence by any stretch of the imagination. But I also know I am not average. I look around people living lives of mediocrity, not expecting too much from life, not giving their best at work or in life in general(of maybe what they deliver is their definition of…