Due to the underwhelming response to yesterday’s entry on Project 16010… I’ve come to the conclusion that I am the only Fine Lawbreaking Citizen around.

With that… I’ve come to this.
If we all take the time to contemplate ourselves and our lives…. we can see pretty quickly that each of us unique. I think we all know that tingly feeling inside….. that we get from time to time. The one that reminds us that we are different from anybody else on the face of this earth.

Every person I have ever asked about this…. has… at one point…. had this perception.

Yep. It is as sure as I am sitting here. I am myself. From head to toe…. the good and the bad, the light and the shadow of me. I am myself…. in what I like and show to others, what I condemn and hide from others.

I am made up of all of that.

I am. And back at ya’! You are all that you are.

We are unique. Perhaps some of us are very similar…. but certainly not exactly the same.

As I look at the rest of the world, I see that this is our intrinsic nature. And, I think this is true… no wait. I know this is true …. of all the beings in our world….. animals and plants. Rocks and water droplets. Birds and mountains.

Many very smart people, scientists, and philosophers…. throughout history…. have pointed this out. Long before me. I’ll tell you that right now.

So. What do we do with this? Well, it seems apparent to me.. that we must learn to live more consciously. To honor, and share, and celebrate this uniqueness which exists in all of life. In all its various facets of diversity. In the physical, the mental, the emotional, and most certainly, the spiritual.

So. I’m glad to know you. Different you. Different me.

“Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else.” – Margaret Mead

“You are unique, and if that is not fulfilled, then something has been lost.” – Martha Graham