I recently heard a talk about identity in which the speaker said it’s almost as though we are born into a world in which we are constantly being labeled by others — our parents, our friends, our family, and people we don’t even know. Each person, from the outside looking in, comes up with a label to slap onto us without our permission. Some labels are kind and some are truthful, but many of them are lies. And sometimes we leave the negative labels on so long that we believe what they say; we allow those labels to define us.

I recently heard a talk about identity in which the speaker said it’s almost as though we are born into a world in which we are constantly being labeled by others — our parents, our friends, our family, and people we don’t even know. Each person, from the outside looking in, comes up with a label to slap onto us without our permission. Some labels are kind and some are truthful, but many of them are lies. And sometimes we leave the negative labels on so long that we believe what they say; we allow those labels to define us.

– Debra Fileta –

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