I was at at friend's house the other day. She had called me and was very excited to have me visit, but she would not tell me why. When I arrived I found that she had just purchased a new label maker. She had labels on everything. Food. Remotes. Paper Products. Her children! She even had labels prepared for me.
I said "Hold on, I do not want to be labeled. I know who, and what, I am." She was shocked and a little perturbed at me for not sharing in her zeal to label everything and everyone. She said to me, "What's wrong with labels? You use labels." "True," I said, "I label email and some other 'THINGS', but never people." I thought it prudent to leave at this point.
This visit, however, started a stream of thought. We label everyone. We label people by race, religion, national origin, cultural identity, political ideology, social class, orientation, the clothes worn, etc. Why?
Should we not simply identify ourselves as human?
Do we have to be segmented, classified, and locked into a particular group? My answer is no.
We have allowed ourselves to be labeled for far too long. Labeling is separating us from one another and not allowing us to come together. We must stop the labeling and start the unification. We are human.
Labels are good, but not for humans.
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