This girl was put into a box early.

I am tired of being put into a box. If you vote this way or agree with this policy you are then categorized and labeled. It has been really bad for the last 10 years. Are you liberal or conservative? Democrat or Republican? How about I am me? I feel a certain way about things that are unique. I don’t have to be identified by a marketed list of beliefs I should agree with.

I have been guilty of doing the same thing. It is easy to want to push back at people that try and marginalize you by marginalizing them in return. It doesn’t do anything but alienating the other person.

So what makes us do that? The puppet masters do. The ones that want you to be apart of their group or base. The more they can make you see the other side of an argument as a stupid and bad idea, the more you will be persuaded to think that way. It is brainwashing plain and simple. It is making you stop reasoning and forcing you to use your emotions.

I hope that people take time to reflect on their beliefs. That they don’t let something upset them and not look at the truth of the idea. We are all unique, and have unique backgrounds that we pull from to generate our views. If we don’t consider what other people think we won’t be able to solve problems that effect us. It doesn’t mean you have to compromise your beliefs, but it does mean you can incorporate good ideas instead of just dismissing everything based off the perceived ideas you have been marketed about people.