The repetition of “you are unique” lands like a curse here. As if being told you’re special became another instruction instead of an opening. What’s devastating is the realization that uniqueness was never nurtured, only branded. And branding, no matter how poetic, is still ownership.
Write from our childhood we are told to be like the smartest kid in class or the best athlete, do what they are doing, and years later when the job interviewer says - ahh, everyone gives meddling same answers, how can we , we are told to be like someone, instructed to be a certain amount of everything the society desires, telling us do this - it makes you unique, you're unique because you do this, and then the interviewer says who is unique- everybody is unique of the same kind raised by the same minds , ~so are we unique?
The repetition of “you are unique” lands like a curse here. As if being told you’re special became another instruction instead of an opening. What’s devastating is the realization that uniqueness was never nurtured, only branded. And branding, no matter how poetic, is still ownership.
yeah, thats a brilliant perspective and really the meaning of what i was trying to portray here. thanks for the read btw:)
Hits so close to home. Beautifully written.
Write from our childhood we are told to be like the smartest kid in class or the best athlete, do what they are doing, and years later when the job interviewer says - ahh, everyone gives meddling same answers, how can we , we are told to be like someone, instructed to be a certain amount of everything the society desires, telling us do this - it makes you unique, you're unique because you do this, and then the interviewer says who is unique- everybody is unique of the same kind raised by the same minds , ~so are we unique?
beautifully written 🫶🏻