6.26.24 // Language and Labels

Language and Labels.
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I’m convinced language can be deeply limiting. Language as labels takes incredibly complex beings, and tries to put them in boxes for others to understand.
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Sometimes I even put myself in the label boxes because we all desire to be known and labels help others understand us. And what a basic human need, to be understood, to be seen, to be loved for what is seen.
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But as Alan Watts said, “trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.”
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It feels like a disservice to label ourselves, especially because labels feel so rigid. Yet, without labels we float in the non-defined, the unwritten, and ask for others to dig deeper to understand us.
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It’s a courageous space to live in undefined, and I applaud the souls who are willing to live in the in between, lost in the labels, living in the gaps of language.