My Life is Average

My life is average is the name of a website that that runs short anecdotes about normal average occurrences and normal average non-occurrences. Small stories are admitted by the users themselves. The users have a little dispute going with similar websites like FML (Fuck my life) and it seems that it becomes a way of life. After starting to use this site I have caught myself thinking when experiencing something that this would be great to publish on MLIA. The stories often begin with yesterday I read an MLIA (my life is average) it kind of becomes a way of life to many. You find stories from children and adults alike, all sharing little joys of life or just funny stories about how normal everything is. There is something fascinating about this movement i wouldn’t say celebrating, because that would make it something out of the ordinary, but acknowledging their normalness cultivating their mediocrity, recognizing that they are nothing special. It is interesting that an urge to become the most average then arises. The number one ranked story is, “Today i realized that the word bed looks like a bed.” It is nothing special at all it is actually quite stupid, but i think MLIA offers an outlet, where you can admit that your life is kind of boring and that you do sometimes get these funny thoughts in boredom.

People post obituaries saying that so and so biggest wish was to get a story posted. Many would say that it is kind of sad that people’s biggest wish is to be average. However I would rather look at it as being honest and realizing that you are good enough even though you are not the best. The other week I read a response to all the obituaries that said, I’m not dead, but my LIFE is average. Pocket psychologist would call this an effort to protect yourself from your own failure and that making fun of it would make you feel better, MLIA’ers would sayi don’t feel crap about myself, my life is just average might as well look at it with some humour. But it is funny though how there even is a ranking system for the best stories. Or more correctly most average stories, it is a competition on who can be most average.

I think a lot of people here would like to believe that they are a bit more than average, hell i would like to think that, but when I read this website I feel I would like this to happen to me. At once reiterating how average my life actually is.