Rule No.89 - Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else.

I have two birthmarks on my body and three beauty spots on my face in the shape of the shorthand "therefore". My eyes are brown-green when I am happy, and a darker brown when I am sad. My nose is skew and I have two very large scar's on my right leg from an accident when I was a kid. I used to have perfectly straight teeth after years of braces, but then my wisdom teeth decided to redecorate my mouth. I'm at least 10 cm shorter than all 5 of my family members and my fingers look like baby pork sausages. This is me.

Fingerprints, teeth, lips, eyes, ears, fingers, toes, beauty spots, birthmarks, scars. These are just some of the things that make us unique. Without them, CSI would be a lot more complicated and Horatio would probably have so many more one liners for all the unsolved clues. Millions of us have brown eyes, or blond hair, or are 1.56m tall. But every single one has something, well, unique. Studies have showed that even identical twins are different.

I had the strangest dream the other night. I was dying, I had 15 minutes to go, I wasn't in pain, but I knew I was dying and I was discussing with someone what they could use from my body once I died. And you know the only thing I wanted to keep, was my heart. I told them they could take everything else, even my useless liver, but they had to leave my heart. Maybe it is because it is the only thing no one else could EVER replicate, that it was the one thing that made me who I am. No one will ever feel how you felt, the love, compassion, hurt, pain, joy, confusion, true happiness and heart wrenching sadness. As much as you try to explain that to someone, they will actually never truly understand what you felt. They will know what you saying as they have felt those feelings too, but not the same feelings as you. If that makes sense?

So as much as all the physical attributes make us individuals and unique beings, I believe it all comes down to your heart. There is no other out there like yours and your heart is the bar-code of your uniqueness.

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Suze said…

Thank you so much Anonymous! :)

17 April 2012 at 12:40

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