"Beyond Labels"
The practice of labeling others is so common that it seems that we have written in our genes. Because the best way to "override" the other, to corner him, to silence, to deny their rights, even their very dignity is put a label that keeps us from seeing the person to look into the adhesive.
Is the other side of the border? We face an enemy. Is he wrong? We are facing an uneducated man, unable to contribute something intelligent. Do you have a good dress? Here is a bourgeois capitalist oppressor of the poor and enemy of justice. Does it smell like wine? It is surely a miserable ruin his family. Labels
arise from the inner desire to "dominate" the other of pigeonholing, of understanding. So go out almost spontaneously, to the point that whoever stands before us comes to "become" a negligible, no right to speak and unable to fend off accusations that sometimes are completely false.
But beyond the labels exists in every man, every woman, something very big and very beautiful: a heart, an intelligence, a spiritual soul . For no man, no woman, can be reduced to what appears, their modes of action, or negative feelings that arise in us against that person.
In every human being lies the treasure of the spirit, the vocation indelible truth, goodness, beauty. Also, unfortunately, within each there are tendencies to evil, to injustice, the lies. So positive labels with which we see in someone so naive qualities only, may become so wrong and so negative and reject labels that others unfairly.
The mystery of every human being goes far beyond any label. In the end, only God knows that within us, that we really are, in a strange mixture misery and greatness.
So before judging others, should stop and look up to discover unsuspected dimensions in this man, this woman, whom I could help if I set aside seriously naive or spiteful cloud. Be possible, then, lend a helping hand and become fellow travelers in the great adventure of human life.
article Fernando Pascual Arcol / analysis and news n. 22 Thursday May 5, 2011
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