Uniqueness (Identity-Part 2)

I had a conversation with a student the other day about doing an interest speech in speech class. She was trying to decide between two topics that, obviously, interested her. She was having a difficult time trying to decide which one to choose. It was when we looked deeper, however, that we saw another reason: she wanted it to interest others. Most speeches that I have heard around the same topic are things that not only interest us, but things that we would hope that others would find interesting. It seems to me that this classically defines it as unoriginal as the person is giving an interest speech looking to find originality in the eyes of their listeners.

This does hit at a deeper truth. We long to be unique. How does a person identify themselves? Most often a person identifies themselves by either positions or actions. Neither one of these things are unique. While their position or expressions might be unique to the community that they exist within, at the core there are the motives that drive the expression. All of those motives are always that basest of human elements: the desire to selfishly express one’s self for no general gain (sometimes called art); the need to be known; the longing to be loved; ironically, the desire for originality; and so on. It is impossible for a single person to be truly and deeply unique. At best they are simply expressing different

The truly original and deeply unique person is the one that can actually see another as unique. This either makes the person ignorant or God. The ability to see through every normal expression, every vain motive and see true uniqueness makes one truly and deeply unique. In that lies the secret, to understand the uniqueness of the One and to see what that One places inside of man makes another unique. Not that what they do or don’t do is unique, those are mere expressions. But it is what that person chooses to be labeled as and accepts that label that makes one unique. Uniqueness can only be given by One that is truly and deeply unique.