Uniquely Great

It’s funny. As my kids get older, I hear their little voices replaying a lot of what I felt as a kid—why can’t I grow up faster? Why can’t I be like this or less like that? Why does so and so seem to make it look so easy when I can’t? Oh and how I recall my parents telling me that it would come soon enough and to appreciate what I had. Man were they right and man does it grit on my nerves admitting so. Not because I have an issue with admitting my parents were right. This isn’t the first example of this occurring nor will it be the last. Still, I wish I could have trusted their words with the same degree of certainty then as I do now, especially having lived all the years in between. And realizing this, I also realize that my kids will probably do the exact same thing with any “sage” advice I give them.

Still, I’m going to write it for anyone out there reading this in hopes that they may take a bit of this advice and actually believe it in time to save themselves years of doubt. We are all unique and that is fine, more than fine in fact! We should embrace this! I don’t want to be callous and speak for those who do not have what they need. I have never truly experienced lacking something I absolutely need and therefore I cannot speak to what I don’t know. I’m talking less about need and more about want. We want to be many things but it is important to realize who we are and what we have, versus focusing on what we lack or could use. There is happiness in appreciating our uniqueness and variety. In understanding our diversity as a whole and our differences as individuals. So as you go through this week, I’m going to task you with one assignment or mind challenge. You don’t need to share, just challenge yourself to think about your differences in a different light. Any chance you can come up with something good about you?

Have a great week and happy writing!