I know you all got some cool nicknames, well I'm not really driving towards that direction though but because you fall into a different kind of people.
Something I've been thinking for so long Labels: most jokes have some sort of racial sentiments and that is something we say we have to get used to but unfortunately when the jokes starts being about the individual's originality, the line is crossed and that is between insecurities and outright curse. It becomes inappropriate and unacceptable to come into acceptance.
It gets to a point where you can sort of predict any conversation or any joke inserting cursive words and you pretend to be naive about it.
Social Labels
It is a method of distinction, calling someone just by color isn't going to cause a breakdown but with the very existence of labels that still encourages these segregation, created as a source to most judgement.
In relationships, in religions, in countries and in varying genders are prominent ways where there are stigma's of being different. Labelling comes in play for instance, when you see your friend doing something unique we label them, when you see a lady at the top it comes with this aggressive look and name calling, or even in the area of varying countries.
Even if we all pass through these really childish phase there will always be this form of separation and I ask myself "why a person will be labelled in a society based on background and in context of any slight emotions? Without this so many tragedies could have been avoided, so many suicide cases will reduce all around the world.
Internet Labels
One of the worst problems is the internet, there is this constant circle of being who you are not supposed to be and calling it normal. And I know we live in a society where the struggle for equality is lesser by the day but then again it keeps going round in circles till when labelling cease to exist which feels impossible still.
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The main hitch up is the community will tell you yes! Be your self, do not let anyone drive you off from being you are still the ones that will say "Be yourselves but in this way". You must always oblige to a certain way in the process of also being you, it doesn't make total sense....for you to be noticed in the place you find yourself or basically interacted with you must be among a set of clique look like them, talk like them, dress like them or you'd be called names.
Country side Labels
Over here whatsover you sell is like a trade mark, if you sell maybe soap you will be called 'Iya soap' which implies mother of soap or Madam soap...you get tagged with what you sell, what you eat the most, by your street number, by your cloth color, by the school you attend, by your addictions mostly if you sleep around. It's so funny because even the next person being called will answer like nothing had happened. We have grown to love what sometimes reduces our self esteem, and our love for ourselves.
Labels can go as far back as to when a baby is about to be born, if the child is going to be a boy or a girl that is when the typical Nigerian igbo man will cherish his male child more than his girls which shows that our relative reactions towards being labelled varies.
What are the essence of who we really are, of the people buried underneath those carvings or labels. Take a moment and imagine the moments of what labels really mean to you. Many of these labels can make you happy, stronger, sad, depressed and angry.
Comment down below on what sweet nicknames you've been called for as long as you could remember.
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|04 August 2021|
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I was named Bestre by friends back in high school and then kaps short for "kapatid" or sibling. I can't remember what other nick names I have earned but nothing sticks. Now I'm being called "kuboy" or cowboy by Coquicoin :D