Unique

I love words:)
Some fascinate me immensely.
Some feel good just saying them: serendipity, zeal, enchantment, majestic, tenacity, serenity, El Splendito, Pura Vida(Spanish word meaning : pure life)
and then of course, the word....UNIQUE
...my dictionary tells me the information below:
adj:
1. only one: being the only one of a kind
2. special: different from others in a way that makes somebody or something special and worthy of note
3. limited to somebody or something: limited to a particular person or thing

The use of unique in its sense "worthy of note" is common in marketing and advertising (Don't miss this unique offer), as well as in conversation.
Many dictionaries and usage guides argue that unique is an absolute concept and, as such, cannot be used with qualifying words such as 'very' and 'rather', but in many cases this restriction seems to be a 'over concern of formal rules' a pedantic objection to what is a linguistic rather than a philosophical convention.

Needless to say, the word UNIQUE is.....unique!
Perhaps we are not to say something or someone is 'rather unique' or 'very unique' but just allow the word
itself to speak in plain and simple understanding of meaning.
It is safe to say that it has fallen the way of many wonderful words which have become 'meaningless'  and has been corrupted by overusage, wrong usage, distorted usage and forgotten meaning.
I want to recapture this word....UNIQUE!
For you see, it so aptly decribes......US!
Each one of us is UNIQUELY US...there is NOT another, we are 'one of a kind'.
We are 'different from others in a way that makes us special'.....UNIQUE!
How dare we try to be something or someone WE ARE NOT!!!!
The 'truerer' we are to our own being.....the more 'at home' we are in our own skin....
     the more we are at peace.  The more 'REAL' we become.
Remember Shakespeare's famous quote...
"This above all: to thine own self be true,
And it must follow, as the night the day,
Thou can not then be false to any man."
This was  Polonius's last piece of advice to his son Laertes, who is in a hurry to get on the next boat to Paris, where he'll be safe from his father's long-winded speeches.
Polonius had in mind something much deeper and more meaningful  than the New Age self-knowledge that the phrase now suggests.
The origination of the word, UNIQUE, is aply described for me in....
Genesis 1: 27 So God created mankind in His own image,
in the image of God He created them;
male and female He created them.
NOW THAT IS.....UNIQUE


.....Let me give you a visual.  I have a pendant that I refer to as my 'one of kind' piece of jewelry.
It is unique because it represents in a symbol my 'theme' of life...my Southern spiritual life.
It was designed and sold thru  Southern Style Fashions in Okeechobee, Florida.
It is UNIQUE!