Wednesday, January 04, 2006

Friends will be Friends will be Labelled

Simmer on this for a while.

Every person you know plays a certain role in your life. Some play even more than one, although not necessarily at the same time. In addition, the roles they play change and evolve. Some people switch roles with each other. In order to make sense of it all, you get to label them.

  • Fathers
  • Mothers
  • Siblings
  • Bosses
  • Wives
  • Husbands
  • Physicians
  • Drinking buddies
  • Hairdressers
  • Flight attendants
  • Bank robbers
  • etc...
I'd come up with more, but I'm sure you get the picture.

Finally you play a completely different role for everyone else as well. Imagine every role was a different person physically. How many billion billion billion people would there be in the world? Talk about overcrowding...

So actually it's very efficient to play different roles, and to treat people like they are more than what we just see or hear.

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