Don’t Try to be Like the Average Person

The average person isn’t much

Remembering words of my father on Father’s Day

Photo by Perry Merrity II on Unsplash

When I was a child, and I knew that I had not done my best, I would justify my actions by saying, “I did what everyone else did.” My father’s response would always be, “Don’t try to be like the average person, because the average person isn’t much.”