What Is It That’s Exceptional about You?

What Is It That’s Exceptional about You?

Exceptional

“Am I exceptional,”

she asked herself.

It hadn’t occurred to her

till a friend,

near death

told her she was.

Now her friend

was gone and

she was left

with the memory

from bedside

and it wouldn’t leave her.

I am exceptional,

she declared,

“and that itself

is not.”

What did she do

with this realization?

Very little, for now,

except, alone,

to acknowledge

her vanity

and smile.

To Ponder

            1.   Imagine being at the bedside of a dying friend—one you’ve loved for

                  years—and she tells you you’re exceptional.

            2.   Of course, you feel deeply touched and hardly know how

                  to respond at this time.

            3.   Of course, again, you’re grateful to this woman who

                  means so much to you.

            4.   Days, weeks, months go by and her statement stays with

                  you, even begins to feel like an obligation.

            5.   Then it dawns on you that you’re special, and then again,

                  not special at all.

            6.   Then you admit you got a little puffed up and chuckle

                  inside.

            7.   Now it’s clear: What you are that makes you like nobody

                  else is what you owe to the world!

© 2013 Allan Cox, Allan Cox & Associates Inc. All Rights Reserved.

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