You don't need to be special to be happy

I’m simply urging you to exert a little caution. We’ve all been bombarded with the message that if we’re not making ourselves special in some way , then we don’t matter. But as David Foster Wallace wrote at length about, some of the most heroic people in the world are those who toil silently through the monotony and boredom , who live lives of simple satisfaction and anonymous successes. And there’s nothing wrong with that.