I stopped believing I was ‘nothing.’

There are moments when you start to believe the story others tell about you.

In The Lego Movie, everyone around Emmet talks about what makes them special—until one voice cuts in:
“We all have something that makes us something… and Emmet is… nothing.”

When I first saw that scene, I felt it in my chest.
Emmet looks down and quietly says: “There you go. I told you I was a nobody.”
No smile. Just that defeated look I know too well—the kind you get when you’ve started to agree with your own doubts.

And that’s where the edit begins for me.
Because I’ve been in that place: feeling small, invisible, unsure if anything I do matters.
So when the track United in Grief × Count Me Out by Kendrick Lamar fades in, it’s not just background—it feels like someone whispering, “It’s okay to feel lost right now.”
At first, the song carries a gentle, almost comforting energy, like it’s giving Emmet space to breathe.

But after he faces the villain—after that moment when he says,
“You are the most talented, interesting, and extraordinary person in the universe… because you are The Special”—
the entire tone shifts.

The same music now hits differently.
It doesn’t console anymore—it empowers.
It’s as if all that pain has turned into motion, all that doubt into direction.

And I guess that’s what this scene reminded me of:
You don’t wake up one day believing you’re special. You build that belief, brick by brick, moment by moment—until you finally see what was there all along.

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~Till next time, remember:

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