On Saturday, My kids participated in a local swim competition with 25 other teams. Let me start off by saying: My kids are not the best swimmers. They are really average (or below) for their age and this area. We have a lot of great swimmers in the Triangle. My daughter gets very frustrated on being just average at things. She wants to excel at everything (which she doesn’t excel at most things she does.) She is competitive, fierce and she wants to shine sometimes brighter than I would like her to. She takes a lot of pride in doing well and being a star so to speak. She was telling me that she feels just average at everything these days. She does many things well, but She doesn't have that one special talent that she is the best at. She isn’t the smartest, fastest runner or swimmer, best trumpet player, funniest, tallest, etc... She is just ok at many things. I remember all so ...