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.
These are not just opinions: Scientists have proved
it.
In the first place, you know
that police and government departments use fingerprints to identify people.
They put some ink on your fingers and press them on paper, and they can tell by
the patterns that your fingers leave if you really are the person you say you
are. That's because no two people in the world have the same fingerprints.
And that's only one way you are
different. Some scientists in Japan have discovered that your lips are special
too. Just like your fingerprints, your lips have little markings on them,
little grooves in the skin ... and everyone has a different pattern.
And there's something else that
really is well known ... no one else smells exactly like you. That's not an
insult. It's a fact. That's why police tracking dogs can follow one person's
trail for long distances just by the smell they leave behind on the ground they
touch.
But that's only a small
beginning of the ways you are different -- you are unique. Eyes can be used for
identification -- just like fingerprints -- because every eye in the world is
different. One doctor in the United States made a study of what is inside of
people ... and he discovered that even your stomach is different from everyone
else's. No two are exactly the same size or shape.
Then there is your heart. It's
different, too. No two people in the world have hearts that are exactly the
same size or shape. Then there is the system of veins and arteries that carries
your blood all through your body. It's also different.
So you see ... you are unique.
You are different.
No one -- anywhere -- is exactly
like you.
If you were to go to a factory,
you could stand beside an assembly line and watch cans of beans (or something
like that) come along the conveyor belt. The cans would all be the same size.
The same color. They would each have the same label. Every can would be the
same as the one next to it.
But you're not like that.
You didn't come from a factory
assembly line.
You're one of a kind.
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!
Source: www.impact.ca, www.academictips.org