These four words will save your life
Chances are, if your life was anything like mine, you were told by someone at some point that you were special. Usually, it’s a parent, grandparent, or other adult who first says something like this to a child. Sometimes it’s a teacher. Sometimes it is twaddle from an esteem-building children’s story.
“You’re special. You can do anything you want.”
“You can be anything you like when you grow up, because you are special!”
“Don’t worry about what that bully said; they are just jealous because you are so special.”
“You aren’t like the other girls (or guys), you’re special.”
However it is worded, it somehow seeps into our psyche. The world is comprised of special individuals like us, and then there is everyone else. For some reason, we never stop to consider that everyone is walking around feeling special.
Everyone thinks they are the main character. Yet, I can say beyond a shadow of a doubt that none of us is the main character. Main characters live happily or unhappily ever after. All of us die at the end of our story.
No ever after.
Nada.
Jenny Wren 