3rd June 2010
"It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation."
Herman Melville
God created us as his master piece and each of us are unique in our own way. There is not another you in the entire universe. There is no other person with your facial expression, thumb impression, character and trait. God wanted you that way and let is 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 bench mark 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. But let is fail and learn from our failure than duplicating someone and fail permanently.
N C Sridharan
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