What If This Year Was Different?

What if you poured all of yourself into becoming all you could be?

Labels last.

Once a jock, always a jock. Once an academic, always an academic. Once a failure … and so on.

The question is why? Not so much why do humans categorize things; that’s obvious. But instead, why do we only categorize once?

Are you the same as you were a decade ago? What about three years ago? What about a month? Yesterday?

No, of course not. Experience alone reshapes us, and each day is ripe with adventure.

“You might think you have defined me by some label, but you are wrong.” Sarah Bakewell says, author of ‘At the Existentialist Café. “For I am always a work in progress. I create myself constantly through action. I am my own freedom: no more, no less.”

Why, then, do we insist on such consistency? Is it a need to be understood? Are we desperate for definition?