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Old May 20, 2021, 07:13 AM
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Still I can’t see in which using labels can be of any help other than venting our pain, our disappointment, our frustration, our inability to accept when others’ behaviour or reactions don’t fit our needs.
IMO, labels says more about the one who uses them than about the person who is applied. In the end, everything we say and do, says a lot about ourselves. About the way we handle our reality at a point in time.

I don’t feel comfortable with labels. And the most part of the times, I don’t like them at all. And the used of a term as “toxic” as much as it can be considered a more politically correct term is even worse for me and I’m gonna explain why. Always speaking from my own point of view.

If I say that someone is “toxic”. I’m doing on one side, a futile act since it’s a multi-meaning term. So, I’m not saying anything.
This is in what a nominative way has to do.

However, there are more implications. Moral implications and psychological ones. Again if I used the term to describe another person I would feel bad because I’m covering the other person with a very shady label. Now it’s up to the free interpretation on the others’ behalf.
Much more, I would feel as doing something unfair when calling another like that without addressing the same term to myself in the first place since I interpret that we can all behave in a way that others might dislike or feel triggered by.
But, there’s more. And this is what I see as the nail in the coffin, describing most of people in your life with labels as toxic. This is not possible. There’s a pattern there. Maybe, we have to look at ourselves and see what’s happening. Are we being the owner of our lives? Are we putting too much responsibility on the other person or people? Why we are doing it? What I’m getting out of it?

I have put labels as anybody. You don’t want to know what I think of politicians in my country. lol!
Maybe I tend to vent less about others, because my worse labels are often addressed to myself. I think this is also unfair.

I think it’s factible to reach an agreement among people who are in this thread. When we feel as putting a label to somebody or to ourselves, we could ask ourselves why we are doing it. Everything has a reason. And maybe, if we find this reason, who knows...perhaps there’s a possibility to learn ourselves a little more.
I don’t know. What do you think?

P.S. I’m not denying that there might be people in our lives who we need to put a distance with. If I see that my partner is dangerous for me, I have to distance from him/her and I should be able to count with the entire society to support me.
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