Do you ever feel like you don't matter? Like no one notices you?  Like you're nothing special.  This is particularly easy when you seem to be surrounded by the most talented people in the world.  Freshman year in college is a time when a lot of people feel this way.  You have just come from high school where half the students don't even want to be there.   Now you're in college where everyone's paying to be there.  And everyone seems to have it all together.  Except you.  You have no clue what you're up against.  I think the great secret is actually that it doesn't matter.  Who says you have to have the answers to life's questions before you experience it?  The more I live, the more I believe in Ms Frizzle's philosophy:  Take chances, make mistakes, get messy.  What she doesn't tell us is that after the mess comes the miracles.  The willingness to take chances makes you special no matter how many times you get messy.  

The popular mentality is that you have to succeed in comparison with those around you to be successful.  You are only a success if you are at the top of your class or if you win the competition or you get that job.  In reality, there is no comparison.  You should really only ever compare yourself against yourself.  How far have you personally come in the past week, month or year?  Who cares how much so-and-so improved even if they started at the same place as you?  It doesn't matter.   You can be special just because you're you.  Sounds cheesy, but it's true.

Alma 26:37  "God is mindful of every people, whatsoever land they may be in; yea, he numbereth his people, and his bowels of mercy are over all the earth.  Now this is my joy, and my great thanksgiving; yea, and I will give thanks unto my God forever."