Today I was reminded of a truck ride.

A truck ride in which I was ‘letting go of’ a rooster that I had raised in the garage of our city home. Beyond ALL belief, he actually lived and we happily, and with a bit of sadness, graduated him to an official country farm where he could wake up God and everyone with his early morning crowing! His own calling of which, no one in our city neighborhood thought that ‘being himself’ was that great. In the country though? He was perfectly designed to wake everyone up for the beginning of the day. He fit.

I was able to visit my former city rooster a couple of times before we moved from our Oklahoma town, but I fondly remember the little miracle that was rather ‘a bit unnerving.’ Today, I chose to reflect upon the rooster and realized my life is like that sometimes…a bit unnerving to those around me. I don’t quite ‘fit in’ to the prescribed definition of whatever is ‘acceptable cultural norms’ int he culture I find myself dwelling – sometimes. At other times, I fit from other’s perspectives but that message doesn’t reach my heart. I can be a bit of a loner.

All of us feel this way in different settings, or maybe, possibly feel this way all the time. We might ask ourselves questions like, “Where are ‘’people?” Or “Where is the puzzle of life that I am the missing piece, fitting perfectly into the gap prepared for just me???”

I’m pondering the realization that the truth might surprise us, in other words, we ALL are different, by design. We ALL are ‘one of a precious kind’ the lie is we should all be the same. I don’t need to travel and keep traveling to find a symbolic ‘farm’ on which to dwell or ‘become’ in the next stage of my life or even my current ‘day.’

Life IS process, life IS change and standing out in any crowd. WE ALL have a unique fingerprint, a unique viewpoint that ONLY WE can share. So why be silent?

Reality check? OK

Yes, there are seasons of time. Yes, there is a place and a time for revealing layers of self discovery. Yes, we all live on one planet, live in various places and countries, city or suburb, farm or mountain hide-a-way. There IS a culture of peoples that choose to dwell together – there IS this unspoken need for relationships and meaning – this ONE thing is at the base level of humanity,

ONE thing that Is the same:

We all are unique!

Please consider sharing your uniqueness with the people around you. Those around you area there for a reason. They need you and you need them.

Find the differences, find the similarities, but always remember…

You are one of a kind and very precious.

Maybe today you could pause and ponder the uniqueness of YOU. Maybe just for a few minutes, or even a longer span of time. Discover the unique finger print of who you are and rejoice!

Love you readers…whoever and wherever you are in your own personal journey, thanks for joining mine 😉

~Stacey

’Henry’ the cat pictured above, no picture available of said rooster 😉

Journal Entry | 11December2024 | Stacey Britton | One of a Kind