Stop letting labels define who you are. There's a better idea
Let’s discuss labels. If you know me, I’m a big fan of dumping labels wholeheartedly, but they are not altogether bad. For instance, if you get to a place in your life where you feel free or need to proclaim who/what you are, labels are needed for that. “I’m free!” “I’m gay!” “I’m single again!” However, that’s the only thing labels are good for – grabbing hold of who we are and accepting it, stating it, and basically taking ownership of who we are as a person. The problem is that once you stick a label on yourself, you’re kind of stuck with it… not just from other people seeing you with that label, but in how you see yourself. Trying to label ourselves is a bit like putting a label on water. It dissolves slowly until what's leftover is a sad shade of what it once was. The worst part is we're still clinging to that label, so we are not what we could be, because we are claiming to be what we were . Since our eyes are on the past we CANNOT move forwar...