What a crock. People like to say “if everyone is special no one is special!” Is that so? If that is true... explain professional sports to me? Not just anyone can get on the field with a football team or a basketball team in a pro game and be evenly matched can they? So every one of those athletes is special. But- even among giants some are taller than others aren’t they? So sure. We can all be special. With different gifts and different strengths and weaknesses. With an intrinsic value as human beings.
You are as special as a Ferrari and then some. The message “you’re special” doesn’t mean you are perfect. It doesn’t mean the rules don’t apply to you or that you’re above others. It means that you have value. It means you should take care of yourself and be good to yourself and kind to yourself. It means within you is a potential. Something that if you nurture it will grow to be something the world can use.
Not everyone is Einstein. Someone needs to teach Einstein, clean Einstein’s lab so Einstein can do what Einstein does. What you do matters. Your every action and the purpose you put into your life matters. The man who walks on the moon doesn’t walk on the moon if someone in a warehouse didn’t ship the hoses for the rockets or drive the tuck to get the hoses there.
You have potential to be great at SOMETHING, you have the potential to be a great person. That’s a special thing. You meet a lot of people who aren’t the best humans they could be- and so far in all the universe we’ve found 1 species we can recognize to have human potential. And you’re one of those people.
Perhaps the people who lost need to know they are special are the ones who have the furthest to go in reaching their potential. Make sense? Before you can invent a plane you have to realize flight is possible. Before you can become a better person you need to realize that you have that capability. You are special because you can choose any minute of any day to work on becoming a better person. Loving who you are is good- and isn’t the same thing as accepting that it isn’t possible to be a better version of yourself.
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