BEING AVERAGE IS ENOUGH
- melodieholman
- Mar 30
- 3 min read
The Reading - Couch Potato Energy
When I entered this woman's energy the first thing I felt was... comfortable. Like, really comfortable. I felt myself sinking into a couch, remote in hand, just watching TV. Not binge-watching some intense drama, just like... whatever was on. Something easy. Something that didn't require much.
Then spirit showed me what looked like a school assignment being handed back. I could see the grade at the top - a C. And the feeling I got wasn't disappointment, it was more like, "Yeah, that's about right. That works." Not excited, not ashamed, just... fine with it.

Spirit kept showing me variations of this same energy over and over. Medium effort. Medium results. Completely satisfied.
I started saying out loud what I was feeling: "Why do you need more? Why do you need to be better than this? You came here to be average. Like, genuinely, authentically average. Your run of the mill normal person."
I could feel Anne's energy shift a little, like she was wondering if I was going off track. But spirit kept hammering it home. This isn't a person who's settling. This is a person whose PURPOSE is to be okay with okay.
No Past Life Shown
Spirit didn't take me to a past life for this one, which was unusual but sometimes happens. It felt like the message was clear enough without needing to show where she'd overcorrected from. The focus was entirely on THIS lifetime.
Her Questions - The Opposite of Her Purpose
When Anne started reading the questions this woman submitted, I almost laughed. Every single question was about doing MORE.
How do I find my purpose? How do I make a bigger impact? What am I meant to DO with my life? Am I on the right path or should I be doing something bigger?
And spirit just... wouldn't have it. Spirit actually BLURTED out of my mouth (which happens sometimes when I'm trying to be too polite about what I'm hearing): "YOU CAME HERE TO BE HAPPY WITH BEING OK."
Not okay as in "settling for less than you deserve." Okay as in THIS IS ENOUGH. This life, this normalcy, this average experience - that's the whole point.
I said, "You don't need to find some big purpose or make some massive impact. You came here to experience being a regular person living a regular life and being genuinely content with that. That IS your purpose."
Her Response - The Relief
When she emailed us back after watching the recording, her response made so much sense.
She wrote: "I'm always trying to do something big. I was raised to be the best - best grades, best career, best everything. My parents pushed excellence constantly. But in truth, I've always just felt like... isn't this enough? Why do I feel guilty for just wanting a simple, quiet life?"
She said the reading gave her permission to stop striving. She'd been carrying this weight of feeling like she was supposed to be extraordinary, and hearing that her purpose was literally to be ORDINARY felt like the biggest relief of her life.
She wrote: "I thought I was lazy or unmotivated. Now I realize I was just fighting against what I actually came here to do - which is to be a regular person who's happy being regular."
My Reflection
This reading messed with my head a little, to be honest. Because as a human, I've been conditioned the same way - that we're all supposed to be special, make our mark, leave a legacy. The self-help world is ALL about "living your best life" and "reaching your full potential."
But what if your full potential IS average? What if some people genuinely came here to experience the middle? Not the extremes, not the exceptional - just the normal, everyday human experience without the pressure to be more?
Part of me wonders if this is too easy. Like, couldn't anyone say "oh yeah, I'm just meant to be average" as an excuse to not try? But when I was IN her energy, it wasn't laziness I felt. It was contentment. Real, deep contentment with simple things.
And honestly? In a world where everyone's trying to be exceptional, maybe someone who's genuinely happy being ordinary is actually kind of revolutionary.