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3/21/2013

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A week ago I shared a blog from Karen Pilarski.  She's shared another wonderful entry that I wanted to share entitled 'Labels Don't Stick'.  It's a great post and a great piece to use to start talking about how we perceive one another.

I've put a few paragraphs here and you can follow the link to read the full entry:

Labels Don't Stick 
By Karen Pilarski

 
I once found a can of food buried in my pantry. It was dusty and expired a year earlier.  The label was completely torn off. I had no idea what was in that can of food. My only thought was that it was old and should be discarded. A bout of braveness took over and  the can was opened. Needless to say it was a slimy and green version of what I  want to say was peaches?

Yes, I’m going to compare people to expired cans of food. People don’t stay the same. The marks of life show in  dings and dents, displayed on the surface.  I’m not the same person I was years  ago.  I’d like to hope somewhere in the span of time my personality has evolved  into something more positive. It is unfair to stamp someone a certain way  because of how they were when growing up. I’m guilty of labeling people I’ve  dealt with based on perceptions of the past.

I remember this mean girl  from high school choir. I made the mistake of being funny and making a goofy  face in a picture. She called me out in front of the class and said I was ugly.  I went home in tears.  I wrote her off as a cruel bitch. The end of the year  before our graduation she came up to me and apologized and said
I wasn’t ugly. I  wonder what made her see the error of her way.  Maybe the choir teacher put her in her place. Possibly she realized she hurt my feelings?  I’m sure she would  have been hurt if she heard me say she looked like she hit a few ugly branches on the ugly tree.  Fast forward a decade and she is hopefully a responsible  member of society. Perhaps she learned that words hurt people.  Labels hurt people.

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5/27/2023 02:58:13 pm

Thank you foor writing this

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