That is so great to hear! Thank you so much for sharing your thoughts on this topic. Labels definitely limit us in many ways. Now it is a matter of conversing in society and feeling understood, without getting stuck in or attached to labels.

As for the premarin, I wish it could have worked out more natural for you, but I am glad you are feeling better. And I am humbled by your expression of kindness – thank you, it means a lot!

It is hard to be exactly who you are because society uses methods of keeping us on a straight line. They want many to be the same when we are all born with unique personalities.

Wild wave!!!

Hugs, JJ

The Premarin is working and I am much better. It is because of your blog that I said yes to taking a tiny dab of it to help with my thinning skin. The tiny dab is not supposed to be absorbed into the system much so I don’t have to worry about breast cancer, according to the the doctor. Glad I said yes.:D You have made a difference in my life. Thank you.

Hugs, JJ

While I try to get away from labels in my own life, for self and others, I also am not naive to the fact that they can be very helpful.

Just as with everything else, it is not a weapon that is bad. It is HOW we use it.

It is true that most people are very into labels, in every sense and limit others with them incredibly. And that is where my problem with all this comes in, labels do not necessarily have to be bad, as long as we apply the right ones to us, or better yet broader meanings to who we are in general.

And you bring up excellent points about being in the company of people who accept you for who you are deep inside, not because of what any label says about you.

So as I started in this comment, it is tricky when it comes to labels, but don’t lose hope that a world without incorrect labels is not possible. We will have whatever we as a human race choose to make. And the more people that don’t like a particular system, the more change we can expect to see.

@ GENA – Thanks Gena! I look forward to reading your post about this topic too :)

But it doesn’t matter, and why should it?. Things only matter when you let them get to you. Why should it matter if someone thinks you’re a vegetarian, therefore you’re skinny, healthy, never eat meat, yadda yadda? People will always have preconceptions and while they’re often wrong, it happens. YOU know who you are, so why should you really care who other people think you are?

It’s true that it’s human nature to want to be accepted by our peers, but there are always people out there who will like you and who will accept you and who really want to know you. I mean, just because you don’t eat meat doesn’t change you as a person. If people like who you are and they’re iffy about how you eat, it’s not like they’re just going to brush you off. And if they do, are they people you want to be around anyway?

And if they like you anyway and you really want them to understand, have them over for dinner :P.

I don’t know, I’m rambling now. Good post, very insightful. Looking forward to reading the rest of the site.

Amber

We can only create the society we want through our own personal words and actions – and it is wonderful to hear about people who are doing just that :)

Thanks.

I really like the story you present because I have seen this as an example on myself several times now, where locking myself into a label is just so limiting and it just doesn’t feel good.

We are dynamic human beings that are constantly changing and so as you say, may we not lock ourselves into boxes where we do end up getting lost somewhere inside.