Limited Edition
Black in colour, the T-shirt had two words printed on it. “Limited Edition”. At first I wondered if the wearer was advertising something for sale. But there was no phone number to dial or email to type. Then I woke up. The T-shirt was making the point that each and everyone of us is a limited edition. In fact we are so rare that there is only ever one of us. The human genome people say that while we share a goodly number of our genes with close family, no two people are exactly alike. Even twins who arrive on the same day, to the same parents, with an unexplainable ‘connection’ are different.
The fingerprint folk in our police force tell me that each person's fingerprint is entirely unique and this type of evidence stands up in court. This fingerprint technology has other applications as well. For example, when my old iPad went into palliative care and I had to get a new one, one of the security devices to ‘unlocking’ it is my thumb print. How nifty, but how exciting is that?
Each one of us is completely and utterly and totally unique. In all of human history, there has never been another person exactly the same as you and there never will be.
Now if you were to bid at an auction for a one off creation that could never be reproduced, how much would you expect to pay?
Answer… you couldn’t put a price on it. You are of immeasurable value.
Thus the person next to you, the person you see down in aisle 7 of the supermarket, the person who aggravates and annoys you, the person who rightly is doing a long custodial sentence… Everyone one of us is a ‘Limited edition’.