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What Defines You

Who Am I?

By Victoria WardPublished 6 years ago 2 min read
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Hispanic, Asian, White, Black, or Native American.

Post- Office worker, Journalist, Saint, Doctor, or Fast- food worker.

What defines you?

The first moment you breathed life, opened your mouth to cry, you were defined.

Stereotyped.

Labeled.

Sealed.

You had no idea who you were, what you would become or how life would begin.

Yet, here you are. Living, breathing, in a room, and reading. What labels you?

Race, gender, or age.

Background, family, or friends.

See, the world today judges you by who your friends are, what part of town you live in, what clothes you wear on your back, and what your mom/ dad/ guardian do for a living. Why, because this is life. This is how it is.

DEFINED.

Tell me, what are you defined as?

Thug, Racist, Gay, Ugly, Depressed, Kind, or a Terriost.

Who are you?

Successful, Loving, Prideful, Natural, Falling- Apart, Nice, or Human.

That’s who you are.

Don’t let people define who you are by your actions! Don’t let them define you by your looks or words.

What is this world? The way people treat you? What can you even do about it?

You’re labeled for life. By sinners. By good people. Bad people.

You’re defined.

Defined by society to be a man or woman.

Defined and destined to follow society’s rules and regulations.

Society determines the way you are. How you look, dress, act, and love each other.

But why? In a world full of defined people, what else is there to do.

Defined as fat.

Defined as a slut.

Defined as ugly.

Why are you defined?!

Because people in the world are destined to define people they see !

Go beind a curtain, and speak.

Will you be defined?

No.

Your looks, your clothes, and your religious state will define you!

But, why?

All these years of great peace, protests, and judgements.

Why no change.

Why were you defined.

Did you make yourself defined or did someone else?

What right do people have to treat you as a label.

No right.

THIS WORLD.

Where is the peace and love?

Where is compassion?

Why are you defined this way, what are you doing to hurt yourself down like this. What do you have to change? NOTHING.

Determine your definition in the justice of your heart. Define yourself first. Then thats the only definition.

But... you define people too.

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