label me

We all get a label: sometimes it's one we spend our whole life trying to live up too. For others it's one we desperately want to leave behind. It's surprising how much society's validation means to us. We're taught not to care what other people think because you can't satisfy everyone, but with a label you just can't do that. Labels are for things like cans and overly priced clothing, not people. We live in a generation where no matter what we do or say we're labeled for it. It's a never ending cycle of never being the right balance. Don’t be too fat, or too thin, or too dark, or too light; don’t be too sexual, or too chaste, or too smart, or too dumb. Be yourself. But make sure you fit in. You tell us to be skinny, but not anorexic, smart, but never a try hard, funny, but not annoying. If we talk too much you consider us pest, but if we don't talk enough we’re antisocial. If everyone didn't label a man as "weak" for communicating his feelings and showing emotions more relationships would last. Being attractive doesn't automatically make you self conceited. If you're too nice to strangers your fake but if you're not nice enough you're rude. Putting labels on people is just an easy way of marking something you don't quite understand. The only word that you can truly label someone as is human. We are only human. In its simplest sense a label is society's way of saying you fit into a specific class, status, or definition, but it doesn't have to be like that. We all blame society for labeling us but if you really think about it we are society.