Why is every human being unique?

“Every human being is unique”

The above statement is oft repeated but no one really believes in it. There will be people swearing by this statement, especially educators but none of them are able to logically prove it. People generally give logics like “People have inherent talents, some people may be inclined towards painting, while others towards sports and still others towards academics.”

The above is fair enough but after all how many such interests can you count- fifty- hundred or two hundred, but still it would be difficult to prove the uniqueness of each human being because they are there in millions.

For me also, the statement has created trouble as I was trying to find the ‘uniqueness’ in me. It has been a great learning to decode it and understand it.

A friend of mine came to me, the other day and argued about it. He said, “How can each individual be unique? Look all the people do similar things- going to offices, raising children, partying- they are all the same? May be you can put them into broad categories- extrovert, introvert, aggressive, creative etc. But to say that ‘each one’ is unique, is an exaggeration.”

It was great for him to question the statement – it showed that he was thinking. A lot of us just start believing in statements without questioning them.

I think he rightly questioned the statement – If every human being is unique, why does everybody do the same thing? The facts negate the statement.

The truth is that a lot of the uniqueness in this world remains in the air. Let me explain this.

The factor, which makes human beings unique is their mind and thought process- yes!
Every human being has a different brain- different thinking. And everybody admits that. You would also surely agree with this.

At the mental level, everyone thinks differently – even a piece of furniture evokes different thoughts in the mind of different individuals.

Each incident and experience generates some thoughts in a person’s the mind, which are not shared with anyone as they are thought to be inconsequential. Its also true that many of our thoughts are half baked, irrelevant and probably nonsense- but nevertheless they are different for each individual.

Its only when you start nurturing these thoughts that subsequently your unique thoughts get processed.

The problem is that most of these half baked thoughts are not given importance and they vanish in thin air. You do come back to them but rarely do you remember them properly.

Moreover, never are such thoughts put on paper or expressed in any other form (paint, sing etc). Hence, the unique thoughts of an individual remains in his/her mind and never come out. The individual also doesn’t respect his/her own thoughts. The result is that the individual keeps to the normal societal routine of going to office- raising kids and so on.- the society as a whole reflects monotony.

Its only when these thoughts come out that the uniqueness of the individuals come out. If an individual writes, draws, speaks, sings and above all take action on these thoughts, the uniqueness of the individual comes out. The people of our society whom we call unique- the actors, writers, painters, thinkers, politicians or whatever, are the one’s who got a chance to express their thoughts.- and the world gave importance to their thoughts.

If you don’t believe me just try it out for a month and you would find your uniqueness yourself. Take a piece of paper and start jotting down your thoughts- whatever non sense or sensible. Gradually you will find a pattern among your thoughts and you will you’re your own theories of life. Initially, you may find that all that you think and do is non-sense and perhaps for pleasure but later you would realize the potential- ‘the true uniqueness’ inside you.

For the rest of the world to realize your uniqueness may take some time but let me tell you that you have “arrived”. Remember uniqueness is in the expression- in any form- may be expression in a medium, which hasn’t even been thought of.

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