Many years ago I was quite taken by writing from Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s Confessions Part 1 (1712-1778)…..
“I am not made like any of those I have seen; I venture to believe that I am not made like any of those who are in existence. If I am not better, at least I am different.”
Funny how a truth can be recognized even when we are not looking for it. What a wonderful revelation to realize it’s okay to be different, better still would be to embrace our uniqueness for the gift that it is.
What a lovely world we could live in if people didn’t aspire to be like someone else, but rather chose to be themselves.