How May I Label you Today?

In a sea of Internet bullying, 

personality quizzes (I'm pepperoni pizza!), 

fake news, 

real news,

free blogs where people can post any damned thing, 

lots of feelings, 

well, mostly feelings, 

where do we fit?

I'm in a constant state of trying to figure out

who I am,

what I am,

who I can relate to,

but mostly procrastinating,

I read a lot of psychology-related articles.

This IS my personality type! Kind of!

I AM an ENFJ! Sometimes!

Wow, those people ARE assholes, all of them! All the time!

I'm a special unique flower.

Everyone else is uniformly terrible.

Me, You.

Us, Them.

Fat, Skinny.

Peaceful, Terrorists.

Introvert, Extrovert.

Type-A, Type-B.

In-group, Out-group.

Labels can give us a sense of classification,

that we can put someone/a situation

in a clearly-defined,

easily explainable,

black and white

box.

We should know better by now.

We shouldn't shun entire populations of people 

for the actions of few.

We shouldn't assume 

that we're always right

and perfect

all the time. 

I'll harp over and over again 

that what we actually like to do

is just surround ourselves with people 

who think like us

and look like us

and talk like us

and believe like us.

The rest are wrong.

Unsafe.

We're wrong and unsafe to them, too, you see.

Anyway, quizzes are fun. 

But you know, they're just quizzes.

We are complex and beautiful,

and our answers will probably change tomorrow.

-C McG