Don’t Fence Me In
J and I were walking our dogs and J was doing her usual complaining about Lucky and Lucky is a fence fighter and this drives J crazy. Someone walking by said, “Yeah, I’ve been a fence fighter my whole life.”
There is a school of thought that you fence someone into a persona when you put a label on it – for instance, ADD suddenly swallows the entire person, who can now be reduced to one single acronym – A D D.
Think of all the words that swallow you – FAT, ADD, UNHAPPY, WOMANIZER, BITCH, COWARD – these are big words that eat up whole people and spit them back out as labelled, as done, as they are what they are.
Let’s lighten up a little – and see the complexities of all human beings – and move towards the light instead of dwelling on the negative descriptors that pull you down into an abyss you can’t climb out of.