Are you UNIQUE or DIFFERENT.

Are you UNIQUE or are you just DIFFERENT. You look at this sentence and you feel like being unique and being different are the same. But I just realized recently that they, infact are not. You can be different and still not be unique.

Hi, I'm Abeegail, welcome to my blog, I'm on a quest to find myself through writing and journaling and today I'll share my take on uniqueness. Most people want to be unique but they mistake being different for being unique. Being different and being unique aren't quite the same thing. Being different is more like doing something a different way than you've seen others have done, it looking at yourself and saying "I'm not doing that because it has already been done"m
whereas being unique means being the only one of its kind; unlike anything else, being unapologetically you, not because no one else is doing it but because it's what you want to do.

When you try to act or create different from what you see around you, your behaviour is subjective to that thing you are trying to set yourself apart from. Being unique comes from who you are, your experiences, no one has the exact same experience as you, has the same parents or share the same view as you, so no one could ever be like you. Now I'm not just saying this lightly, no one could ever be you, there's only one you EVER. From the moment you are born you are collecting data from a different point of view from any one else, Our personalities are formed by experiences and that's what makes you YOU.

Look at every situation you have ever been you have ever been, you have every possibility to make any type of decision; you can choose to be kind, mean, nonchalant but based on who you are you and the experiences you've had you make the decisions you make because of that. And even if you don't have experience you react to things a certain way because you don't have experience.

If you have an idea about something and you want to do it, who cares if someone has done it before do it, don't look at the fact that someone has done because even if you do it you won't do it exactly as that person did because you are not that person, you would do it differently because you don't share the same experience with that person, you would express that idea differently and add your touch to it and that's what it means to be unique but when you try to be actively different what ever you do is going to be subjective to whatever you are trying to be different from.

If you call yourself unique and you just look at other people and say I'm not doing that because it has been done already then you are not unique but just different but it's okay because we need different things, it's okay if you don't want to do what other have done it, it okay to want to come up with fresh ideas but if you say you are unique then it means being unapologetically YOU.

It's still Abeegail ✨😊
Being uniquely unique.

Thanks for reading ☺️
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