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Originally Posted by Liara Covert  At the same time, upon reflection, I also begin to understand why judgment and preconceptions prompt human beings to categorize things. People have grown accustomed to labels. Is it time to evolve and change?
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Liara,
I think labels are nothing more than categories for separating and processing experience.
That categorization is essential for the mind to work. If we did not set certain expectations for the world around us we would not be able to function in any way.
Can you imagine being surprised everytime you took a breath? Or wondering what would happen every single time you dropped something?
We must take in information and make decisions and assumptions based on that experience in order to move forward.
Where we fall down, is that we get hung up on our assumptions- especially around people. We take what "is" and make it "mean" something.
For example, if I get up at the same time every morning every day of my life and walk out the front door to get the paper from the front walk and just as I push the door open, a certain car goes down the street, what's to keep me from thinking, "By pushing the door open, I cause this car to go down the street?"
In this case, what "is" is that I do something and something else happens. Period. No cause, no effect.
Now, if we only lived there, as I said we'd never grow, learn or progress. We have to make some connections between cause and effect. That connection is "labels."
Sometimes we make wrong connections; like the car. But through experience we learn that if we turn the doorknob and push the door will open.
It's a balancing act between being appreciative of this experience we call life and not allowing the wonderful to become mundane and actually doing something with it.