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** Especially when you've come from somewhere where you were one of a few with an interest in this something, e.g. a wannabe writer/musician/football player/etc, you go to a college, and you suddenly discover you are about average (or worse, ''bad'') compared to everyone else.
*** Or how about being a B average student with a straight A for sibling?
** [[The Simpsons (animation)|No matter how good you are at something, there's always about a million people better than you.]]
* Happened hundreds, if not thousands, of times across history. Scientists/Artists of all kinds/Politicians/etc... who would have been genius if a bigger one hadn't been born at the same time. Sometimes History does them justice and remembers them better than they were at the time (in which they were overshadowed), and sometimes [[The Woobie|they remain overshadowed for eternity]]...
* The [[Warriors of the Desert Wind|Jordanian Army]], is good, but it had the misfortune to be pitted against the [[Badass Israeli|IDF]].
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