It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.
Herman Melville
God created us as his masterpiece, and each of us is unique in our own way. There is no another ‘you’ in the entire universe. There is no other person with your facial expression, thumb impression, character and trait. God wanted each one of to be unique let us implement His will.
In fact, this is applicable to any creation in the nature. You will not find two identical trees, two identical rivers, two identical mountains, etc.! Isn’t strange? Duplication is not in the design of nature. Any duplication is artificial and bound to fail. People will accept only the original and reject the duplicate. Hence, the entire attempt to produce the duplicate is a waste of our efforts and resources.
Each of us has our own unique talent and the world is big enough to accommodate all our creativity and innovation. The opportunities available for displaying our talent are infinity. It may be easy to duplicate someone. But we will fail to make an impression in the society. We should have our own benchmark and role models and we may want to emulate them. There is nothing wrong in that. But emulation is different from duplication. We may like to emulate the values and principles of Mahatma Gandhi. But duplicating his external behaviour alone will be ridiculous and will not produce the same result which he produced.
We may fail initially to be our own. However, let us fail and learn from our failure rather than duplicating someone and fail permanently.
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