To be Exceptional

To be exceptional and view the exceptional has varied meanings:

1. to be considered exceptional is to be considered - someone else has to consider you, someone else has to be looking and gauging in the first place.
2. to be considered exceptional is to be placed within a hierarchy - towards the 'top' in this case -only because exceptional is a word with positive connotations.
3. to be considered exceptional is to be unique or different within a group of people - there has to be a norm for there to be an exception.
4. It has to be lonely. It is separated from everyone else at least to some degree
5. ego inflating - depending on the person
6. When someone is pointed out as exceptional, it is usually presented as if the exceptional person can't help it - their exceptional-ism is beyond their control.
7. It seems as if - because it is just the way the person is naturally - that to be exceptional is easy for this particular person and hard for everyone else in the group - whether this is true or not
My guess is that it is not because usually to be exceptional takes a large amount of extra work.
8. Being viewed as exceptional is being viewed from a skewed angle - it does not encompass all parts of a group of people or individual person...it is only looking at particular parts of a situation or person.
9. To view someone as exceptional is to be surprised - at least to some degree.