Sunday, February 6, 2011

Osho #27: Labels

I had a rather long-winded writing on this Osho, then removed it. In short: this isn't worth giving much time to, nor do you get to know some of the things about me that I wrote. ;-)

Labels. Good? Bad? Positive? Negative? They just are. The smart one. The creative one. The pretty one. The crazy one. The insecure one. None of us are just one anything. Nor are we all of that one thing. We're not creative in every area of our lives. We may be smart in many ways, but it doesn't keeping us from doing stupid things sometimes.

We label others, others give them to us, & some we give to ourselves. In the end they're nothing more than what they sound like: labels. A little machine we type words into and then punch out with a sticky backing to place on the object. It's up to us to decide whether to glue them on more permanently or simply peel off and discard. Read yours. Consider them. Then decide what to do with them.

And ask yourself: how would you feel about typing out the words you're thinking of someone and sticking this on their back? Does this make you a better person or in any way help them? Be wise, observant, caring, and kind. Bring people into your life who you can benefit & who benefit you, but leave the labels to the monkeys to stick on random things, because really... what's the point?

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