Good Greetings to you all. Today I'm talking to about "boxes". Yes, not boxes, but "boxes".
Depending on where you are from, depending on how you were raised, depending on your experiences of life we all live in some variant degree in "boxes". We can wear labels that say 'Middle-class', 'Buddhist', 'Rhodes Scholar', 'Short', 'Smart' etc. And each label has a societal set of adjectives that are tact on to it; this my friends is the titular "Box".
I'm here to remind myself and all of us that no matter what titles we call ourselves, we do not need to adhere to rules and stipulations that are the societal definitions of said title.
To be specific, I have had this experience multiple times:
Person A: So are you a vegetarian?
Me: I don't eat meat or buy or cook it, but I'm not a vegetarian.
Person A: But if you don't eat meat, then you are a vegetarian.
Me: I'm not a vegetarian because if someone cooks a vegetarian-kept, free-range, no anti-biotic chicken, I may to eat it.
Person A: So then what are you?
It seems that people are not satisfied until they can tag you with a label, a word, that then has definition, four walls, a ceiling and a floor.
I'm here to tell you, none of us need a "box"! You may call yourself a hippie, a fashionista, a hipster, an earthy-type, but these labels are not you in its ENTIRETY and there are no set of rules you have to fall into because of said labels. You like things, you dislike things, but 1 word can never completely define a human life. So, for my alternative eaters out there who deal with a slew of dense individuals on a regular basis, remind them: I eat what I eat, I eat what I want, and sometimes that includes 'x' and sometimes it doesn't.
Let them agonize over not having a "box" to put you in.
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