Ordinary

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 adjective, with no special or distinctive features

I am ordinary. The problem with my life is that I thought I was someone special and I assumed people had high expectations of me. "Intelligent, smart, pretty." good at everything I do, that in the end no matter what I did, how much I did, I kept letting everyone down; especially myself. If only I  had realized sooner that I was ordinary, more importantly that it was okay for me to be ordinary, I could have been living a happy life, doing ordinary things without feeling guilty. Now that's extraordinary.

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