Don't be so easily defined. Unknown
I've been talking with my redheads lately about this very topic of today's quote. When we are easily defined then we are not unique. And each of us has the potential for unique. If we are easily defined then that can mean that we have allowed the norm to mold us instead of us making our own norm. I think back to my middle school and high school days where the pressure to be defined by a group - jocks, nerds, popular, etc - was strong. If you fit into the group and could be defined by the characteristics of the group then you were "in". But were you really? By being "in" you are giving up, or away, the things about you that make you unique. You become easily defined instead of creating the definition. As I'm encouraging my girls in this teenage season of life I will encourage you also, don't allow the definitions that are out there become you - go out and be your own definition.
I've been talking with my redheads lately about this very topic of today's quote. When we are easily defined then we are not unique. And each of us has the potential for unique. If we are easily defined then that can mean that we have allowed the norm to mold us instead of us making our own norm. I think back to my middle school and high school days where the pressure to be defined by a group - jocks, nerds, popular, etc - was strong. If you fit into the group and could be defined by the characteristics of the group then you were "in". But were you really? By being "in" you are giving up, or away, the things about you that make you unique. You become easily defined instead of creating the definition. As I'm encouraging my girls in this teenage season of life I will encourage you also, don't allow the definitions that are out there become you - go out and be your own definition.
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