You absolutely are special.
(If anyone thinks/says otherwise, they’re lying.)
How many times,
ave you been told the lies that you are special?
Have you ever agreed to that?
Nah! Maybe not!
What is special about me, are your thoughts?
Well, I’ve come to tell you what you care to hear this time.
You are not special! You are too usual!
There’s nothing spectacular about you!
Those are what you care to hear, right?
Ohh, sorry! Maybe what I meant was, You are not alone
Yes! You’re not the only one battling cruel thoughts
And suffering from the demons of being an impostor.
I’m with you on that (that’s a deep secret I just shared, yunno).
While the progression might have started I don’t like it here.
And the “it is hard to deal with this” feeling,
Or why am I here even in the first instance?
It started anyways and I am here feeling it all.
Conquest to deciding to live in my head,
And shutting out all noises to battle a seeming lost cause all alone.
Anyone telling me you’re not special then
Met the “Tell me something I don’t know”, buddy answer.
But somehow, everything changed.
And the one-time answer,
with which I used to wade off pressure
seemed no longer enough, so I had to search for more.
I wish I didn’t have to’ and ‘it would be easier if I wasn’t here.’
which soon become, ‘I wish I didn’t exist and ‘I wish I were dead.’
and eventually, turned into, ‘I want to kill myself.
Became the reign.
I mean I was losing my head to the constant struggle of being better,
the captivity of higher expectations of myself, others and the universe
and the hell loss of disappointment that follows such big expectations.
Or, how do I explain that at 22, I was looking at the achievement of a 42
Aspiring to land the success of 15 years of hard work with a 3-year work.
Anyway, I got off the hook, somehow.
Maybe my dealer failed me one time and the cloud parted for a while
for me to see the silver lining I was blinded to
or maybe just like many, I’ve had my near-destruction experience
Putting this in the proper contest
Well, whether you choose to believe it or not
The fact remains You. Are. Special.
In the history of the world,
All the people in it now,
Just one of them is you.
You will share pieces of yourself with many people,
Enough strings to tie the world together so that you cannot be alone,
But you are still the only person in the whole world who is you.
The odds of that are so significant, so important,
They read like a love letter from the Creator to you.
And that’s your power, your lifeline, your reason.
I know it hurts
But it is worth living through
So that you can change this place
With the fingerprint of your life.
Your uniqueness is both purpose and power.
It should tell you that you were created and placed here for a reason.
As it told me that my life is a once-in-the-universe event
That can neither be copied nor repeated.
That is incredible that is worth living for.
You absolutely are special.
(If anyone thinks/says otherwise, they’re lying.)
