You may be looking at the title of this article and wondering what it has to do with you. We have seen and heard the tag Baby Boomers plastered all over the news for years. It seems as though no matter where we go or what we do as a society we are separated by race, age, sex, education, religion, clothing style, food likes, addictions, criminal acts and so many other labels. What we need to take a look at is what happens when someone will go to great lengths to fit into these categories. When we make these labels so distinct and constrictive we also add a sense of identity that people carry with them no matter the consequences, good or bad.
Labels can be cool, but only if they are on clothes.
And, even on clothes labels are used to separate rather than to unite. When people hear these labels mentioned they automatically make a judgment and conviction against those associated with that label. I'd like us to work at not passing judgment on people, and begin to understand what we don't know or what we fear. By uniting we build. Without growing we will never know what could have been.