Achiever Achiever

I have come to the conclusion that I am just an achiever.

What does this mean? I am so glad you asked! It means that I don’t really fall into the category of over achiever, which is far too lofty a description for anything I do. Nor would I consider myself an underachiever, because really, I did manage by some strange magic that is beyond me, to have garnered a (mind you very humble) amount of creative and academic success in my life. However when put in relation to the accomplishments of others, including those I currently spend many of my graduate school hours with, I can’t help but notice my own lack of awesome. Not a total lack of awesome, just a slightly less amount when put in relationship to other peoples awesome.

Perhaps the problem is right there! Perhaps our whole system of underachieving vs. overachieving is flawed do to the fact that it is completely contingent on its comparison to others.

It may be a wiser then to simply focus on my individual accomplishments rather than on how they stand up to what others are doing.

Truly I think I will start seeing myself as an achiever achiever, which takes the other people out of the equation altogether. No longer under or over anyone else!

Just me the achiever achiever. I like it.