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President Obama won a Nobel Peace Prize. For me, that still isn’t enough motivation to trade positions with him. Here in Chapel Hill, we have the luxury of being able to sit and complain about the problems that Obama actually has to get up in the morning and solve. Think about that. There are people out there, President Obama included, who are charged with the task of ending global warming, famine and poverty. Even if he ends up accomplishing all the goals that the Nobel committee states have earned him the prize, including increasing global peace and reducing the world supply of nuclear weaponry, will he end his career happy?Our lives as regular students seem to be happier than the president’s as a world leader. Here in Chapel Hill, we try to do our part. Many students here are locally active, and we do our best to help our community. We have charitable organizations and students that give their time to help those in need.Then, afterwards, we can worry about who will win the football game or where to crash after our Saturday night party.Obama just has to go to bed perhaps as one of the most widely disliked people in the world and then get up in the morning and do it all over again. I will settle for what I have in my life and call it a fair trade, even though likely no one I know will probably ever win a Nobel Peace Prize. The prize has a long line of illustrious winners. Previous winners have been the 14th Dalai Lama, Nelson Mandela and Henry Kissinger. These are incredibly compassionate and influential people. Yet I still have trouble believing that they are especially happy in the long term.They were under a great deal of stress, and the ramifications of their decisions were relevant on the world stage and throughout history.In the face of their importance, we shouldn’t forget that it is still okay to be average. Just because the events of your life are not as important to the world as a Nobel laureate’s does not mean you should despair.These Nobel Peace Prize laureates are probably content with their achievements, and they certainly deserve our praise and respect. But so should average people, who wake up in the morning and try to make the lives of others around them more pleasant. It goes without saying that most of us as regular folks lead lives that, to outsiders, are completely boring.We all will likely end up as middle management in some small corporation and live out the next 65 years without affecting the world in any large and meaningful way.As average people, we shouldn’t sweat the fact that we won’t do great things. We all have the chance to positively influence a handful of people around us, and we should seize that opportunity. For some that handful is bigger than others. And for all of you out there who truly believe that you are destined for great things, don’t let me discourage you. But most of you out there should get comfortable with the idea that you won’t be out there hobnobbing with the previous Nobel Peace Prize laureates. Instead focus on the important things in life, like family, friends and school. And enjoy yourself.