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Some thoughts on Uniqueness...
Many of us have heard the saying that we are all unique. But where does this uniqueness arise from? Just look all around and we meet people from all over with the same hobbies, tastes, opinions, and even sleep patterns like our own! Twins who share 100% of their genes. People with the same name as ours. A network of people who engage in advocating an idea that you also believe. A person who shares the same values as you. Someone who enjoys having the same desert as you. A friend who laughs at the same jokes that you do. All of these are things we can have common with someone. We are all human beings who are experiencing things, and some of these experiences collide and mesh together to give the indication of a connection with someone. So, if we have so many similarities, so many things in common, then what really signifies our uniqueness?
It is our existence.
It is our own individual existence that signifies our uniqueness. It is because we simply exist that each of us is unique. When we are born, we come into this world with a blank canvas, and on this canvas we can paint whatsoever we please. It can be filled with our hopes, with desire, with anguish, with joy, with conflict, with peace. It is a choice for each of us to make. Experiencing our behaviors, our actions, our most personal thoughts shape the canvas. So, our existing...our experiencing creates a different canvas for each of us. And because our experiencing is continuous, dynamic, and always changing, our canvas can never be copied or replaced. It is a canvas that is truly unique.
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Take a look below into some enlightening thoughts on this topic as only Osho could wonderfully describe:
"There has never been a person like you before, there is nobody else like
you right now in the whole world, and there will never be anybody like you.
Just see how much respect existence has paid to you. You are a masterpiece - unrepeatable, incomparable, utterly unique."
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