Cynthetiq

sorry to buck the trend of your sweeping generalization, but not mine.

I wasn't the top of my class and neither was my sister.

We were both charged with just having to do our best. Our best being whatever that was and maintaining it. Once you set the bar, you then had to hit it consistently.

But I was never required to over achieve.

I overachieve on my own now, because I was given the freedoms when I was younger, and I'm quite bored with most of what I can accomplish on a minute to minute, day to day situation.