We humans love to categorize and label. We look for patterns and sources of commonality so we can apply a name and if we're lucky predictable behaviour.
It's a bit easier in the animal kingdom but with human beings the archetypes often defy being pegged down. Nevertheless we keep trying so we can feel comfortable in what we think we understand.
It makes us feel somehow safer.
The longer I live the more exceptions I find to everything. Yes, there are common threads to humanity but the anomalies abound. We are particular and peculiar which stems from the many variables contained within our brains.
Thankfully this messiness can be a source of comfort once we reach the Sophia stage of life (in the idiom of Carl Jung). We find solace in our originality and disregard opinion in a way we never have before. We don't seek approval, we don't respond to emotional blackmail and we stop people pleasing because our image of self is fed through internal means.
We defy categorization.
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