Imagine Soruce
Labels
Why does my generation fear or stray away from labels? Does it hold a consistent truth they or we can’t commit too? Has my generation failed to see the value in labels?
Are we the here and now only?
Every job I have held have strong opinions on my label-less, selfie-obsessed, and social media guru.
We are the queens of hashtags, the kings of witty remarks, and vice versa. I wonder how our children will be someday? I made a reference that my sister didn't understand and she is only four years younger.
I now understand the feeling.
Not sure, I will understand her in a few years as our interests are starting to drift. Have you noticed as well, that this generation against labels also struggles with finding their voice?
Finding your voice
If you aren't an artist that sings, draws, or even coding has become its own art form then you must be put into another category. Not a label, but a generic none judgie label. One that gives value to what you say or do.
A category that helps focus your attention until you figure out how to work outside the box. Someone said something along the lines of don't label me or put me into a box.
That triggered me, lol. Not in that way, but It made me wonder if there is a difference. Does it matter if we are put into a category, or slapped with a label when the person doesn't have a voice to express themselves?
As a Gen Xer, I love my labels. Gen X, vegan, expat, Aussie, etc. Label away!
Also, what did you say that she didn't get? I'm intrigued.
I think it was either Indiana Jones or double 7. I don’t remember
Voices that all adhere to larger sociality acceptable labels in life get lost in the void of mediocrity. Least that is my thinking and why so many are trying to avoid such things. Everyone wants to change the world expect they don’t want spend a life time trying do just that. There will always be yet another one of “those” x, y, z labeled people. It’s a neat and orderly way for people to understand.
People use to label themselves as YouTubers, bloggers, or crypto experts and people would laugh. Than you had entire generation growing up wanting to be one and everyone trying get on board with it. It’s a sense of belonging and creating order in mayhem of this universe.
Labels most of the time seem to be a way for people to take away from being unique as it now defined in some kind of grouping. I say give yourself your own label in life, otherwise, others will.
There no fun in life if it’s generic one either. I labeled myself very early on as an “unconfirmed time traveling cat.” Hard to both quantify and correlate what that even is. Even more so since it’s a bit of a mystery.
Others labeled my name as one thing but I created it a number of years ago without prior knowledge of it's existence. I created its own meaning to me and that is all that matters. Their labels are not the same as ones I give it.
Everyone is in a box, thinking outside of the box is just another box. That not really changing thinking it's just another way for people to think they are being different. The only thing that matters in this instance of restriction is you have one life and no clue when it expires. The box is not revilement in the equation it is just something you store things in to group them together.
Did you just call yourself, “unconfirmed time traveling cat”?
Not like my profile has not said that for ages now -meow.
It really does. Which I think proves my point. Our generation hates labels expect for the ones they create and or define for themselves. Why are we so obsessed with cats too? 🤔
Happiness.
Well I had this comment for you, but then I managed to mangulate something in my keyboard warrior shortcutting around the place and managed to bork something and it disappeared, oops :S
The original was much better but I can't seem to write it again, but was along the lines of maybe people are going out of their way to avoid labels because some narrow-mindedly focus to the exclusion of all else on one particular label when everyone is really an interestingly shaped container chockers full of labels.
I may have also been somewhat snarky about judgemental people in the last comment so perhaps it was fortuitous that the thing vanished ;D
Bahahahah, I was going to compare your disappearing comment to the same level of frustration or curiosity when my best friends says, “ I had something to tell you, but I forgot.”
However, I think it was for the best If it made you snarky. Now, ponder this with me. Why is it that judgmental people make our generation so snarky and not Choogirl’s generation?
I do most of these comment checks and replies on my first coffee, it's too early in the morning! XD
Seriously I think it may boil down to a keyboard warrior syndrome. I don't know that too many people would say to people's faces (either while occupying the same physical space or looking at them on a webcam) or even write into a "sternly worded letter" some of the stuff they scream into microphones (on voice chats) or pound on their keyboards :)
I do feel obliged to add that despite that text chat has been awesome for people like me who are entirely too slow to keep up with a voice/face to face conversation at the best of times XD
I cannot wait to meet you in person. Attempt to match people’s pace from online chat to in person is easier than you give yourself credit for.
I was going to write something about labels today. It's a really crazy Time were in. We're now more defined by labels than anything else
I think so too, I hope you still write it. Would be interesting to get another persons perceptive
#Awesome content. Well done
I was just talking to one of my students, @xbriakay the other day about something similar. While I was born in 1980, I think that like many of my comrades in the war of the generation gap, I identify as a Gen X-er. I feel that we struggled to attain labels that fit us, as our generation was vying for an identity being carved out of larger sub-cultures. Generationally rebelling against hippies, yuppies and punk rockers, collectively, we worked hard to identify ourselves and to be seen both as PC but unique. The millenials seem to do the opposite, rebelling against the rebellion. I asked Bria the other day to identify a song that she felt spoke about her generation or acted as a voice to her generation and she labeled the Black Parade. It isn't as easy to identify a voice for the generation, but it also isn't hard to find a feel. I think, personally, that the lack of voice is a representation of the kind of late-bloomer attitude this generation has. They were babies by both helicopter parents and an extended childhood. It will take time but I believe they will have much to say. They will figure out the reason for the box and why boundaries are needed... perhaps the long way, but I have faith in them once they do.