We cant help but relate things we see to anything similar we have seen before, this trait we have developed we apply to everything people included. We love to put people in a box based on their appearance, their identity and their way of life, but no box is large enough to describe all that a person is.

Labels are how we categorize ourselves, they can be useful to represent an aspect of who we are or to meet with likeminded individuals. But labels often fall short of how we truly are, I am “straight” which to me means that I am attracted to the opposite gender, but to alpha males on twitter I’m gay if I am attracted to women who they view as too masculine. Maybe that was a strange example but my view on a label might be different than others view or definition of that label and some labels feel like the only partially describe an aspect of myself or don’t reach the full definition in the eyes of others. If I where to attempt to write down all the labels that apply to my person the list would wrap around the earth and it would still be inadequate. Labels have their uses to connect people who are similar, but we need to recognize that people cannot be categorized so strictly, we are unique and so are our interpretations of these labels.