Episode 1 — The Decline : How I Accidentally Became (below) Average
Episode 1: How I Accidentally Became Average I was always confident. Not loud. Not attention-seeking. But certain. I always knew what I was and who I wanted to be — as you’ll soon find out. Even now, I’ve probably only lived 20% of my life — maybe less — but that 20% has not been gentle. Some people fight quietly just to exist. I did. I fought as a girl. I fought as a middle child. I fought as someone carrying things no child should have had to carry. And fighting does something to you. It either shrinks you — or it forges you. It forged me. I knew I was intelligent. I grasped concepts before most of my peers. I understood dynamics before they were explained. I was hyper-aware of rooms, of tone shifts, of what people meant without them saying it. I knew exactly where I stood. And more than that — I cared. I felt empathy I never received. I held love for people who would never know my name. I cared about the overlooked, the ones quietly drowning while everyone else applauded the surface...