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let's romanticise the mediocre middle

Most of us are living in the middle, learning to be okay with mediocrity, the halfway point between high and low.

Call it ‘normal,’ ‘everyday’ or ‘ordinary’ but we’re all in the midst of it, making toast and sipping tea and putting on yet another load of washing. There’s the irritable things we deal with, the difficulties we’ve come to accept and the del…