Special - by Max Nussenbaum - Candy for Breakfast
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When I was younger, people were constantly telling me that they expected me to go on to do great things.
When I was younger, people were constantly telling me that they expected me to go on to do great things. I remember this coming from teachers, mostly, but sometimes other kids too; I was always hearing that I had big things in my future, that people were keeping an eye on me, that they looked forward to being able to say they knew me back when. I know I wasn’t alone in this—there must have been a fistful of us in every school, a nationwide army of identical standouts. And I’m not even sure how many of the people who said these kinds of things actually believed them. I’m sure at least a few…
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