Labels

I was never given a label in high school. I never really fit into a single group. If you don't want to be labelled then show examples of your different sides every day and confuse the heck out of them. If it's music that got you labelled, then listen to something completely different the next day to show them you have a variety of tastes. Really though, it's like Base said. It doesn't matter what they think about you. It's how you feel about yourself.
 
I wasn't given a label in high school, but I didn't limit who I hung out with either. I just figured I didn't get labeled because no one gave a damn about me though. :happysad:
 
i was considered punk in high school, because that's who i hung out with the most. I had friends in all the cliques. I never wore any of the uniforms (jock, prep, goth or punk) i just dressed in whatever way was comfortable and i liked almost all themusic that was around at the time.
 
I didn't have any friends in high school, and i have glasses.. therefore i was a nerd. and not the good nerd, the ones that'll fix your computer in 10 seconds, no.. i was the 'emo, gamer, kill-you-with-a-sniper-rifle-from-the-tower' nerd. Granted all of these things were true, (maybe not the sniper rifle part.. i prefer bladed melee weapons) but they used these GOOD qualities (the computer fixing and the gamer, emo is neutral not good or bad in my book) to make fun of me. I didn't get it then and i don't get it now. I was proud of being a nerd, being able to fix computer programs, being good at games, and I was God-damn fucking proud that I had emotions to show besides hate and a need to belittle my fellow man.

Half the reason I listen to the songs i do is for the emotion. I actually feel some kind of high by rapidly changing how i feel and music does that really well. Evanescence - Listen to the Rain followed by Drowning Pool - Let the Bodies Hit the Floor followed by Eve 6 - Here's to the Night followed by Metallica - Of Wolf and Man, Through the Never, or Unforgiven. That's the kinds of playlists i make on my computer except more like 5 hours long. For me that lets me get it all out of my system so i'm not bottling up all my anger or frustration. (Lately though I've had so much of both that the music isn't enough.. as the bruises on my hand and the fist shaped speckling of blood on the wall can attest.) I have no problem being 'emo' as some people say. Most people think showing any emotion means you're a cutter or you want to kill everyone. WTF?

I never cared that I was labelled, I just wished people would be intelligent about it. :rolleyes: Granted if everyone was intelligent they wouldn't be making fun of others, but if you're going to anyway, at least make sense. Make fun of them for something BAD. I laughed silently for the first few years... then it got annoying as i gained more insight and realized that these people really couldn't think of anything better. The future of mankind truly scares me.

"You laugh because I'm different. I laugh because you are all the same...":sad:
 
Well if emo is defined in your terms I think 99% of the population is emo. I mean who hasn't punched a wall/door/pillow?

Oh, and don't worry about the future, not when it comes to those shallow folks in school. In 10-15 years, they will be more than likely not much more successful than they were in high school. This will be true even if on the outside everything looks peachy, eventually it will rear its ugly head in the shape of nervous breakdowns, horrible life-destroying midlife crisises (sp?), ugly divorces and broken homes, etc.

Personally, I believe everything comes back to people. You can't go through your whole life being an asshole without getting put in your own place atleast once. ;)
 
Label me a psychopath, but everytime I see someone using that quotation as a screenname in MSN, or just wearing a shirt with that quotation as a print, makes me want to mass murder people.
 
It has nothing to do with if we "need" labels. It's human nature. We do it automatically. People tend to organize things and ideas by categorizing them. There is nothing you can do about it. To say "don't label people" is to attempt to change the very substrate of our being. All we can do is take it upon ourselves to insure that though a person is labeled in a particular generalized grouping; we still see them as individuals, with the same strengths and weaknesses that we all possess.

By putting on an article of clothing, or mingling with certain types of people, we label ourselves. But it's a label of kinship to those who think, and feel as we do, or enjoy the same activities.

There is nothing wrong with a label; it's what you do with it that counts.

By the way, I like how you "labeled" the people that are the focus of your first post as idiots. We can more accurately describe them as unenlightened, as I'm sure not all of them have an IQ under 61.
 
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