Labels are for clothes, not for people

Published by

on

There you go again
with your little label-maker:
labelling people,
characterizing,
categorizing,
classifying;
branding them before they’re boxed away in the limited expanse of your imagination;
compartmentalizing their personalities,
confining them to boxes
they will struggle to get out of;
dumping your baggage on them;
stopping them from growing, from evolving;
and diminishing them
till they shrink enough
to fit into the narrow lanes of your perspective.

Keep the labels in your closet
Don’t closet people with your labels


Discover more from Writing Out Loud

Subscribe to get the latest posts sent to your email.

Leave a comment

Discover more from Writing Out Loud

Subscribe now to keep reading and get access to the full archive.

Continue reading