Are you special?

I seem to have been in front of the Android adverts a lot again and I love their tag line – different but together. I have commented across a few blogs about wanting to be part of something, but also unique.

I love the phrase – You are unique, just like everybody else! It is similar to the Android tagline and sums up humans very well.  Does it make you special? Well, only your loved ones can tell you that. But remembering your uniqueness is very important.

When we are dealing with politics and electioneering, people, especially, like to categorise us: workers; job seekers; ABC1; BCD2; parents; pensioners; voters; apathetic; rural; urban; students; youth. The list goes on. In truth we are a bit of a lot of those, all in different measures. Our recipe is different, we are not the same as the person in the same category.

Remember that. You bring your own thing to the table.

Be unique, just like everyone else.

Hope you enjoy this little clip: https://youtu.be/vnVuqfXohxc

Ghilaine

@LadyGhilaine

Helping one person at a time

I struggle with feeling like I am making a difference in the world. I am too selfish to give all my property away and go off and live and help the poor. My well digging skills are not up to much and frankly, I am city girl who likes concrete and street lighting. Even putting me in the middle of a field at dusk in the UK freaks me out. So how can I help, how can I make a difference?

A lot of people may look at me and say that I don’t and I can’t. Maybe they are right. But I am heartened by the thoughts that a long journey is taken one step at a time. My assistance may not be epic, my changes may not affect a population, but they do affect someone. Even if that someone is just me.

I believe that it is not about the words you speak (or type) that is going to change someone else’s behaviour. They need to see you walking the walk. They are more motivated by seeing the behaviour. It is more real.

Unless you are in the public eye, very few people see your behaviour. If you manage to make someone else think or feel or act, even slightly differently and for the greater good, then you have done a good thing.

Remember, you can help, sometimes, it just takes one person at a time.

Ghilaine

@LadyGhilaine