Fighting for Uniqueness in a World of Copycats

While everything around us is getting louder and faster, we’re striving even harder to be liked, appreciated, loved, or even idolized. No wonder you’re confused. Remember, you’ve been led for centuries to believe that human uniqueness is wonderful when it benefits society, however it’s detrimental when it’s deployed for your own good.

The expression ‘survival of the fittest’ used over and over again in books, magazines, movies and documentaries as a synonym for natural selection has totally blurred your mind leaving you clueless, shoeless in a world that is desperately trying to impose you the thinking pattern of political correctness.

Are you battling to fit in into society, school, the entrepreneurial lifestyle, some crazy fashion trend, or other ‘fill in the blanks’?

Are you still mesmerized by the often described as “arrogant”, “uncompromising”, “careless” and “cheeky” few that live by their convictions, stay true to themselves and harness the power of uniqueness AKA pull all the benefits out of being different?

Let’s all pause for a second, take a deep breathe and allow our very being to penetrate all that is.

We’re close to 8 billion people living on planet Earth. AND we’re all different. There are no two people alike. None.

[2019 World population according to Wikipedia: 7,7 billion people]

We have different DNAs. The color of our eyes, hair and skin is different. Our heads and bodies have different shapes. Even our smiles look different.

Yet, instead of being celebrated for our uniqueness, we are being trained our entire lives to build communities and think, speak, act, dress and behave in a certain way. It’s the group herd mentality. Those who don’t comply get kicked out of the herd and are left alone, to either find a new herd, create their own group, stay alone or even die.

That’s the so-called punishment.

The vast majority of people are afraid of this punishment. They decide to literally turn off their inner light and conform. The few that rely on themselves by learning to build and strengthen confidence to follow their inner calling, leave the herd and often create magical things and live extraordinary lives.

These are the misfits, the Steve Jobs, Bill Gates and Warren Buffets we look up to and idolize.

These fellow humans are no different than you and I. What makes them different though is they’re inner strength to go against the odds, swim upstream, not giving a crap about what society, family, peers and naysayers have to say about them.

The individuals we so admire today have all had their doubts, fears and frustrations, yet they didn’t let these stop them from learning to use their unique abilities, gifts and talents to pursue their dreams and live what ‘outsiders’ consider mind-blowingly successful lives.

Why Your Uniqueness Matters

Aren’t babies phenomenal?

No matter what they do, we love them. They laugh and we adore them. They scream, we feed them and continue adoring them. Until the age of 2 or 3 we adore everything about our baby/ child. And then comes the turning point. Suddenly, when they scream, we tell them to shut up. Worse, we threaten or punish them.

We do this once, twice, three times. The brain remembers. The re-programming begins.

What happens to their cute uniqueness?

It numbs.

While time passes, this numbness becomes normality. Whether one day they’ll find the courage to embrace their true self or not, is totally up to every single individual.

If you’re reading this and you’re one of those people, wake up. Don’t leave this planet with the muse and music in you.

Your uniqueness matters; a lot!

It’s never late to let your true self shine again. It’s never impossible to unleash your inner power and take a different route – even if that means learning a new skill set, finding a new job or starting a new business endeavor, leaving an unfulfilled relationship for a more meaningful one, getting your health back on track, embarking on that trip you always wanted.

The last thing this world needs is more copycats. We have enough followers and admirers. We are overpopulated with wannabees (I wanna be like Jay Z, I wanna be like Mark Zuckerberg etc.) and fake personalities.

BE YOU.

Embrace your uniqueness.

Be who you are at your core. Let the world see and experience what’s special about you. This isn’t a rant about authenticity (another misused word). It’s about allowing the torch to be dislo