First impressions. It’s hard to restrain myself from making snap judgments about people when I first meet them.
Worse is when I settle for my shallow analysis and end up labeling folks.
We’re all complex, all of us alike yet different from each other, so I doubt anyone appreciates my boxing them into a label. Moreover, embracing knee-jerk categorizing limits me from enjoying all the marvelous aspects of the people I meet as well as learning the really good stuff from them.
Alas, training myself to stop being an automaton seems impossible.
Not so! There’s hope, thanks to this consciousness-raising site founded by a wise new friend. Drop Labels features videos of people discussing how being labeled has hurt them. The site goes above and beyond threadbare definitions of types of labels. For instance, this man has found that he hates being labeled as ‘the man with cancer’ …
Do you label? Have you been labeled?
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Can we really?
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we are labeled here by caste in our country.. sometimes.. its a good thought you portrait it through this blog.. ☺️
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All of us get labeled once in a while ….poit is to keep your head high and carry on doing what one think right
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I think we’ve all been labelled – good or bad – over the years. Some are hurtful, some are benign. The hard part is stopping ourselves from doing it … it seems to be human nature to ‘organize’ our world into categories.
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da-AL, you are so right about labels being hurtful! People need to use names and not use external description nor “labels.” Wonderful and great thinking this.
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