Labels
Thursday, March 17, 2011 @ 7:45 PM

Labels are an ugly form of prejudice. Break down the word prejudice and you'll get pre-judge. When you label someone, you are pre-judging them; that means making conclusions about someone without knowing them. I don't know about you, but I can't stand it when I'm unfairly judged by someone who doesn't know a thing about me.

People are too complex to be neatly shelved in to a category like clothing in a department store, as if there were only a handful of different types of people in the world instead of millions of unique individuals.

If you've been falsely labeled, you can live with it. The real danger comes when you start to believe the labels yourself. Just remember: You are not your labels.

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