I was
reading “UnBranding” a clever and informative book by Scott & Alison
Stratten.
(I could go
on gushing about how much I enjoyed the book but you don’t know me so my
recommendation means nothing to you… unless… you do know me in which case you’ve
already stopped reading this and are off to find a copy☻)
People didn’t
start trying to project the perfect image of them selves with the advent of
social media. (That’s not a direct quote
but it’s pretty close).
Trying to
pawn ourselves off as better than we are is as old as the human race. What’s different, what technology allows us
to do, is to project an image of ourselves far beyond the circle of people who
know us.
Even that
might not be so big of a deal if we didn’t also allow, invite… encourage… these
complete strangers to rank and rate us.
It’s the rating that we chasing…
Why are we
ranking ourselves and others? Why are we
creating 4-point, 5-point and 10-point scales by which to imprison our exceptional
individual personalities? How have we
become so deceived as to believe our humanity, our uniqueness can be contained,
reduced, enslaved by an arbitrary number.
The God I
believe in created you to be you! …to be uniquely you. Of the 7.44 billion people on the planet (and
the billions of others who have lived and died) there has never been and will
never be another you. EVER! (this is the real tragedy of abortion) You might
find your doppelganger… you might find a soulmate who is so-o-o similar you
feel you’ve known each other since forever… you might even be an identical twin…
but they are not YOU! …they will never
be you.
You cannot
compare your ‘rating’ to anyone else’s because no two people occupy the same scale. God did not create you to sit in a balance
judged by or against those around you…
He placed
you, His child, in a swing because He loves to hear your giggles and laughter
as you fly back and forth.
my 2c...
