YOU ARE UNIQUE
Think what a remarkable, unduplicatable, and miraculous thing it is to be you! Of all the people who have come and gone on the earth, since the beginning of time, not ONE of them is like YOU!
No one who has ever lived or is to come has had your combination of abilities, talents, appearance, friends, acquaintances, burdens, sorrows and opportunities.
No, one’s hair grows exactly the way yours does. No one’s finger prints are like yours. No one has the same combination of secret inside jokes and family expressions that you know.
The few people who laugh at all the same things you do, don’t sneeze the way you do. No one prays about exactly the same concerns as you do.
No one is loved by the same combination of people that love you – NO ONE!
No one before, no one to come. YOU ARE ABSOLUTELY UNIQUE!
Enjoy that uniqueness. You do not have to pretend in order to seem more like someone else. You weren’t meant to be like someone else. You do not have to lie to conceal the parts of you that are not like what you see in anyone else.
You were meant to be different. Nowhere ever in all of history will the same things be going on in anyone’s mind, soul and spirit as are going on in yours right now.
If you did not exist, there would be a hole in creation, a gap in history, something missing from the plan for humankind.
Treasure your uniqueness. It is a gift given only to you. Enjoy it and share it!
No one can reach out to others in the same way that you can. No one can speak your words. No one can convey your meanings. No one can comfort with your kind of comfort. No one can bring your kind of understanding to another person.
No one can be cheerful and lighthearted and joyous in your way. No one can smile your smile. No one else can bring the whole unique impact of you to another human being.
Share your uniqueness. Let it be free to flow out among your family and friends and people you meet in the rush and clutter of living wherever you are. That gift of yourself was given you to enjoy and share. Give yourself away!
See it! Receive it! Let it tickle you! Let it inform you and nudge you and inspire you! YOU ARE UNIQUE!
~ Author unknown
I recently finished reading “Life’s Journeys According to Mr. Rogers.” He too had so many wonderful things to say about our uniqueness. Here is one of my favorites: “Each person in the world is a unique human being, and each has unique human potential. One of the important tasks of growing is the discovery of this uniqueness: the discovery of ‘who I am’ in each of us–of ‘who I am’ in relation to all those whom I meet.” I especially like thinking of God as the “I am” to be discovered in ourselves and all our relationships.
thank you for this post Evan…it is just what I needed today…to be reminded that the “I AM” in me (the All-in-all) is so infinitely full and complete that at any given moment God has infinite resources to draw upon in delineating his unique expression of goodness as me…
so much to do and think today….yea!
love, K
Hi Evan,
I’ve been reading and enjoying your blog for a few weeks now. You say a lot that is so substancial. What occurred to me after reading the item on uniqueness is that it means none of us can ever really be worry about a statistic. Statistics relate to numbers in things previously happened. Our unique identity precludes the necessity of depending on a statistic, or fearing one, for anything yet to come in our experience. Just a thought.
Ann