Unique, Incomparable and Quirky.
Growing up was fun for me and my siblings. We have a very exciting mom who would maximize every little opportunity to make us smile. I have always loved to sing and dance. To me singing was fun but the fun is always cut short whenever am told I can't be the soloist in our music crew and choir. I battled with this as a child but finally accepted that.
On other occasions, my mum will happily convey us to children birthday parties and they would always signal us for dance competitions because of our beautiful clothes I guess. (mom has always had a good dress sense). For all the competitions I can remember, I never won. Big sister Okorie Cassandra will always have a trophy. This dealt with me a lot.
I am good at nothing I whispered to myself on several occasions. This affected my self esteem and created much room for anger and disbelief in oneself. I battled seeing things I could do very well but my eyes were blind to them.
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In Primary school, I had a very close friend who was tagged 'beautiful girl'. I looked at her closely to discover what was the secret of her beauty. My insatiable self perceived it was her tribal marks. I cajoled my mom to giving me tribal marks. My sister succumbed to my consistent plea of encouraging my mum to give us tribal marks. It was a success, a huge one.
I didn't look like her. I was still me. I gave a close observation and realized she had dimples. Haba! I gave up becoming her. I consoled myself and got focused on my academics and debate.
I heard a shocking news from her while we were about to graduate that left me flabbergasted for a long time. She has always fought to be me all the while. This made us loose our friendship as she couldn't face it that I was exceptional in the debate crew we both were part of. We hugged and laughed at our stupidity.
Today I can fit in to sing soprano while my sister is an awesome alto singer. We both didn't even continue in singing or dancing. . We have our different strengths and weaknesses. We now believe in harnessing our strengths and weaknesses for more productivity.
I will not dare promise to visit you as often as you want but you can always count on me to do that when my sister is involved.
I have also come to the knowledge and understanding of what true beauty is. I can't try that physical comparison. Mbanunu! Even if sey I chop rat shit. Now I understand totally that we are physically beautiful in our unique ways with an utmost beauty which is in Christ.
"But let your adorning be the hidden person of the heart with the imperishable beauty of a gentle and quiet spirit, which in God's sight is very precious.(1Peter 3:4,ESV).
Our true Uniqueness isn't found in competition or comparison but is discovered in collaboration of our God given potentials.
Let's stick to that which we do better. We have been made eccentric and harnessing our strengths and weaknesses will let our unique nature be seen by all.
You do not need public acceptance to know you are unique. Every 'BEING' is UNIQUE.
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