By Andee Tagle and Audrey Nguyen, Photo: Oscar Wong/Getty Images, National Public Radio, January 21, 2022
If I (Andee Tagle) called you ordinary, how would that make you feel? If I told you I had an average day at my ordinary job, and then went home to my ordinary family, would you think of me as unsatisfied? Unambitious? Unhappy even?
As author Rainesford Stauffer says, it's time to reevaluate the power of an ordinary life.
"The concept of the best life serves as a social script," she writes in her book, An Ordinary Age: Finding Your Way in a World That Expects Exceptional. "Do these things in this order, and you'll end up happy or fulfilled or at the very least on par with the same kind of lives your peers are leading."
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