You’re so special!

“You are so special” my grandmother used to say to me when I was a child.

“You have copper-colored hair with a hint of gold. You are fated to shine! And then with this little head in the shape of a heart, you can only love.”

“You’re so special” my father told me.

“You have a profound way of looking at things, the world hides in your eyes.”

“You are so special” Anna, Lucia, Laura, Raffaella, Nicoletta tell me.

“Your voice is so sweet, it makes us dream…”

I’ve spent a lot of time wondering what special thing to do in order to not disappoint the expectations of all these people. So I started dreaming big and in front of everything I was going to design, I always put there a plus.

“I’ll be the most famous dancer in the world! I’ll take the longer journey on foot than anyone else! I will carry out the most ambitious home project…”

But you know, I couldn’t. I’ve not done all these extraordinary things in my life, only things of extraordinary normality and yet to these people I’m still special.

So I understood, thanks to them, that we are special simply for who we are, without the need to perform amazing actions. It’s not necessary to prove to others what we are worth, because they already know it.

Now the most important thing is another: do we really know that?