Labels

 We all wear labels throughout our lives.

My dad often called me stupid;

my coaches often called “my chunk.”

Neither were labels of respect!

That’s why I never, ever used terms

For kids of other cultures in school that

some of my friends used in private.

Then I became a Marine!

After which I became a retailer

worker with my father and mother

in their retail business; my label was a retailer.

And eventually became a teacher and then a professor!

I wore labels of great respect. And I wore labels of no respect.

I love all the labels I wore, and I hated all the labels I wore, because I always wanted a life without labels.

But now that I am retired, I realize

that this is possible only if we give up our desires

to be better than others. Give up the competition

that our parents and teachers have drilled into us since birth.

The competition that we are better than anybody else.

 

We are all children of God. Equal in God eyes. We must realize that there are no labels. We are all loved by God equally,

regardless of who we are or what we looked like.

Accepting a life without labels makes us humans living in God’s heart.

 

Russell Kendall Carter, BA. MAT. Dlitt.

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