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hey everyone!

Today, I'm not going to use a poem I wrote. The past few weeks I have been reading quotes by Chuck Palahnuik, and they are all very good. One of the quotes just stuck out to me, and I thought I would share!

"I want out of the labels. I don't want my whole life crammed into a single word."
-Chuck Palahnuik

I feel like a bunch of people can relate to this quote. Every day in the world someone is getting labeled. You can get labeled in many ways, popular, pretty, ugly, mean, nice, anything really. I think that is one of the dumbest things ever. People shouldn't get to do that. I read this quote and I thought, how do people label me? I honestly don't know how people label me, I would hope they would say I'm nice. Chuck thought a little differently. He didn't just want to be one thing, he wanted to be multiple. When he wrote this quote, he was probably thinking, I want to be nice and adventurous and different. Personally, I think everyone should think like that. Labels probably won't go away anytime soon, so why not make it a good thing. Make it where people know you as something you want to be. Today, I challenge everyone to go out and do something to make that happen. Let's say you want to be known as nice, go out of your way to be nice to people and people will take notice! What if you want to be adventurous? Go on an adventure! Whatever you want to be "labeled" as, take action and you can achieve it.

-Attison Womack