What ‘Unique’ Thing Have You Created Today?
Its mind boggling to think that we are a species that’s 7.2 BILLION strong and growing – and yet each and every one of us has a unique DNA.
We all have a different brain and no one’s thinking is 100% identical to another’s. We are all unique.
On a side note, the next time you have self doubts, just take a few deep breaths and tell yourself: “I am UNIQUE. I am the only person like me on the entire planet.”
Ever since I was a little kid, I had the craving to keep doing unique things. Keep making unique things. Act differently. Talk differently. Behave differently. Work differently.
Rather than follow traditional norms on what I SHOULD be doing, I tend to stray away to a thought process more on the lines of: What I WANT to be doing.
While everyone around me wrote with their right hand, I had a weird angle of the wrist while holding my pen – that too with the left hand. People laughed, mimicked, made fun, and some even advised to change my writing hand. But my mom dissed everyone, and encouraged me to write the way I did.
In school, while most people would nod their heads accepting every piece of information the ‘book-cribbing’ teacher would impart – I used to be the one who questioned those irrefutable facts. Yes, I was that kid in class. The teachers weren’t happy.
Self learning is, in my opinion, the ultimate way of learning. I have had the pleasure of interacting with some amazing teachers during school and college, but they were all bound by the rules of the institution and the syllabus – which let’s face it – was the SAME that they taught our parents as well.
When you walk the path of self-learning, you make plenty of mistakes, but you learn from many different sources. And eventually your learning is unique. And the way you will implement that learning will be unique.
When the first computer came to our home – a Windows 96 edition – I self-taught myself Paint and started drawing stuff.
When I first saw Yahoo Geocities, I started making websites. Same with Joomla, and WordPress.
When people had just discovered torrents, while everyone downloaded movies and music – I downloaded PHP scripts and plugins.
Just recently, I had the choice to use an HTML template to make my wedding website, but I chose to draw a comic strip instead.
In India, as they say, our parents control most of our lives. Which is true in many cases, but we sure as hell have evolved over time. I believe that if we are true to our parents and we train them slowly to accept our uniqueness, they let us be. They let us follow our unique path. They may not be happy about it at first, but they adjust and adapt.
I am blessed to have parents who’ve let me do my own thing for the last ten years, and I have used that freedom to do unique things.
I self-taught myself programming, entrepreneurship, designing, marketing, product development, sales, HR, operations, management, singing, writing, publishing.
I believe that sharing our knowledge is the best way to leave a legacy behind. And the best way to share knowledge is by doing creative and unique stuff.
Create new things. Writing, painting, blogging, photography, designing, programming, directing – there are SO many ways your can create your own unique thing.
So what ‘unique’ thing will you be creating today?
