Average

I'm in Europe and everything here is smaller. It has got me thinking about how we define our expectations. What we define as normal.

We measure ourselves against the average of others. The average income in the area we live, house size, grades in school, etc. Our worth is often put in perspective relative to someone else. Could we make our own personal continuum for success? Can we be that confident to remove the need for external validation of what we've accomplished?