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An Ordinary Extraordinaire

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I am merely an ordinary man. Below ordinary even! If you look merely at my capabilities. But I am lucky, I was forever lucky. Not the luck where I win lotteries, merely one where I rarely fall too hard. So I muddled through. Who knew being crazy, and lucky had its merits! I was reborn, not in the real meaning of the word. So let's introduce myself again. I am Elijah Cromwell, an ordinary man with a superpower. -------- A story of an ordinary man who has extraordinary power. He isn't special, smart, dumb, genius, retarded. He is merely... "Ordinary". Silly at times, smart at times, unambitious yet brave when the time comes. Like you, and me. Many believe an ESPER power would make us the awesomest people alive! Maybe? But really, would you stop procrastinating just because you have superpowers? Would you make the smartest decisions? No. And that is what makes us unique, in an ordinary way.
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Chapter 1 - A Prologue, And An Introduction.

I am a man.

An adult human male to be specific.

Is it anything special?

I guess not. Nor is being a student or a citizen of an average third-world country.

So am I unique?

Yes, Yes I am. Just like you, the one who writes about me, and everyone else.

We are all unique. 

Unique:- Being the only one of its kind; unlike anything else.

Unique doesn't mean special or extraordinary. I am nothing special. Yet, I am the only me there ever was or will be.

But, I am still merely ordinary. I am strange, I am weird, I am fake. I am smart, I am kind, I am positive.

So many ways people describe me, but what am I exactly?

An adult who grew up unprepared for the world? A child trying to be a man he never was?

I love to eat, yet I have never desperately wished for any delicacies. I love to read, yet I don't seek the greatness of literature. I love to laugh, yet I love making myself sad. I love to improve, yet I never try hard enough to become better. 

I am quite cheap. I hate to spend money, even on important things. I am shallow, I am extremely quick to judge people on the barest information I know about them. I am cruel, I love to see people hurt.

Yet, I try my best to spend for others, as it is how society always seemed to work for me. I try not to comment on others since I know very well how often I am wrong. I try my best to keep people happier around me, since I know it will work in my favor.

Always overthinking, always calculating.

That... is how I am.

Is that special? Yet again, it is not.

There are hundreds, thousands out there who behave exactly the same as me. 7-8 Billions of human beings. Of that, to be unique in the truest sense of the word means to be extraordinary.

But... I want to leave a mark in this world. I want to make people realize, that someone like me exists. That someone with my name lived.

In reality, all beings are Unique. Nothing can change that.

So I wish to be extraordinary, even as the lazy, procrastinating ass that I am.

Life gave me the chance, so why not take it?

This is a tale of a man, nothing more than anyone else, nowhere better than anyone else. Simply, lucky enough... to become, extraordinary.