What if you don't have to win to live a good life?Most of us were handed a race we never signed up for: climb higher, earn more, prove it to everyone. Trying became failing if it didn't end in a win. So we keep running, tired and a little empty, and can't remember when we last enjoyed an ordinary Tuesday.Savita Mawari knows this feeling well. While preparing for the civil services, always trying to be the best, she found herself on an operating table asking one question: what if I die today, and I haven't lived yet? She recovered, and that question changed how she lives.It's Okay to Be Ordinary draws on her own life. It tells of parents who do ordinary jobs, come home exhausted, and still show up for their children every day. Of a best friend and brother who never kept score. Of the hills of Uttarakhand that so many people dream of going back to, and of students who taught her more than she taught them.Inside, you will find why chasing success leaves so many of us worn out, why people who "made it" often long for a simple life they can't get back to, how to give your time to the people you love before it runs out, and a thirty-day practice for living a little more slowly.It won't tell you to quit your job or move to the mountains. It asks whether the life you are building is one you actually want to live.You don't have to be extraordinary to have lived well.