U = Unique

"I'm not like anyone else. I don't need to follow anyone's lead. I'm all I really ever need to be. I'm just simply me. I'm just simply unique!"- M.E.W.

Unique.  I think we're all unique.  I certainly know I AM!  And I'm perfectly O.K. with it!
I like to read books that are a little bit off the beaten path.  The #1 bestsellers don't generally appeal to me.  I don't want to read what everyone else is reading.  I want to read what I want.

I like to travel.  I like to go and to see.  The top 10 tourist destinations do not apply to me.  I don't want to see those things.  I'm not making a list of "I've been there, have you?"  I don't want to see what everyone else is seeing.  I want to see what I want.

I like movies.  The box office hit is generally something I'd like to see but, only because something in trailer caught my attention, not because it's the "Go see movie of the year!".  I'm typically disappointed in movies.  My first thought is always "I'd rather read the book".

I watch very few TV programs - at least not consistantly.  I have a couple of 'musts' for me but, they're not mainstream popular shows.  I'll watch them once they hit syndication and then only sparadically.

I have a difficult time in crowds.  I can't hear well, I can't focus.  I get terribly afraid of Jacob getting disconnected from me.  In a crowd, I tend to pick up the negative energy from people - have you ever noticed how much easier it is to come down to a friends bad mood than to bring them into your good mood?  Negative energy and I don't mean ghostly or haunting or evil.  I just mean unhappy is so much stronger.  It has such a pull.  I'm very sensitive to it.  Anyway, I can sense it and I try to avoid it.

I prefer the road less traveled by with less people and less stuff.  My home does not follow any trends, it's only what I take comfort in.  It's comfortable, it's practical, it's me.   I prefer antiques to new things.  Soft corners to hard edges.  I like storage and organization, neat and tidy.  It's not always what I get but, it's what I like.

I always believed that I was God's unique creation, that there was no other out there like me.  I've never really been one to follow the crowd but, the friends I had weren't crowd followers either.  I was most generally accepted as me, for me.  Even with all my 'uniqueness'.  For when I look at my friends, they're all a little unique too.  Unique in their traits, their abilities, strengths and weaknesses.  We're all unique!  Thank God!  For what would thing world be like if all of us were the same?