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Sat Mar 10, 2012, 7:23 AM
People use labels to hide. Having a label means that you can be someone, you can take that identity, wear the mask that goes with that label. People are scared to just be themselves. Having a label means that you can be what that label says you are, it means that you don't have to explain yourself because your label does it for you, and not always in a good way. If we didn't have labels then I think people would be a lot happier. We couldn't pigeon hole each other, we couldn't try and put each other in a certain box and go "you are that thing so must act a certain way and look a certain way". We must learn to see each other as people, as human beings. There is a reason that I don't have "this a queer blog" or any of those gifs on my page and it's because I don't want to label myself or anyone else as anything other than a human being. The world does not need us to label each other, it needs us to see each other for the people we are behind the labels.

Don't be scared to be yourself. People will love you for it.

  • Listening to: Mitch Benn
  • Reading: The Clash of Kings
  • Watching: Firefly
  • Playing: Portal
  • Eating: Noodles
  • Drinking: Tea
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But I like having my label. I like being labeled as a freak.
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~Drpun Mar 10, 2012  Student Filmographer
hmmmm. well said. I'd like to think I had some inspiration for you to write this entry based on that message I sent you about myself. I'm going through some huge changes in my life right now and being honest with myself is the number one thing I need to do. I'm going from being comfortable and in a routine to losing all of that and taking a huge chance to just do what I feel is what I need to do with this time I have left on this planet. Breaking away from everyone I know and everything I do, or have been doing, to live out what I need. The main thing is to not care what other people think of you and go for it. If they have a problem with you then they have a problem and you don't.
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