Well, there you have it….

YOU are completely & totally unique.  Just like everyone else.

Oh, it is funny, but it is true. We are all individuals, with our own ideas, and thoughts, hopes, and dreams. Each and everyone of us has something incredible to offer this world. Sometimes it surfaces. Other times, it never manifests. Yet the fact remains. We are seven billion strong in our uniqueness.

Yes. We are all one-of-a-kind, unrepeatable, distinct souls…. and the paradox therein remains…. so is every one else.

This makes life interesting…. and often times… challenging.

But every once in a while, we are lucky enough to find our other pea in the pod. Even if it is a carrot. On occasion, we are blessed with a champion, a confidant, a true friend, or even a soulmate and true love. (Even the better when it is all wrapped into one.)

C.S. Lewis once said that “Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another, ‘What! You too? I thought I was the only one.”

And it is a good thing to find that comfort, that side-by-side-ness, that ease and solace. Such a gift…. that we might be blessed this way…. to share our lives with a few choice others.

In our uniqueness and distinctiveness, we can journey through this world, with others.  And it becomes true, that… in our friends, we find our second selves.

“If you live to be 100, I hope I live to be 100 minus 1 day, so I never have to live without you.” – Winnie the Pooh