Sunday 25 January 2015

Labels are for canned food

Labels are a nuisance and yet helpful. They can place us in a box yet help express who we are.

"My feeling is that labels are for canned food... I am what I am - and I know what I am."
- Michael Stipe
Labels may help us to identify with people and explain parts of us to some extent but we shouldn't be held back or restricted or limited by them. You're so much more than a bunch of words, so much more than these preconceived ideas and stereotypes. You're complex, complicated and wonderful.

I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful, I know that full well - Psalm 139:14

Each and every individual is unique and though we share traits, interests and characteristics which can help you to relate to a person they don't define you. That may sound contradictory to what I said earlier and I guess it is. Because they do and they don't. You are showing parts of who you are by these labels but only a part of you. You are so many things that join together to make you you. So many that I don't think you could ever be defined by words.