Lay-Belled

Label. Did you ever been label before? I’m sure most of you have been labeled before. You can either been labeled as a good or as a bad label. What is a good label? And what is the bad label?

The good label is such ‘hardworking’, ‘loving father’, ‘discipline’ and much more. But ‘label’ is usually not refer to the good one. Most of the time you’ve been label as the bad label such ‘slut’, ‘racist’, ‘lazy’, ‘rapist’ and much more.

Usually you got your label when you do something that’s make people recognize you through your action. There are two ways to make people recognize your action. First, you just do it once and people just remember it forever. The thing you did should be memorable and huge; such as you jump out of a 70-storey building and live or, you assassinate some one important in your country. From those actions, you probably get label as invincible (good) and hitman (bad) or something else.

Second, you always do something that catches the eyes around you. For examples, when you always reading, you get labeled as book worm, or when you like to wear something sexy in public, people may label you as slut. There are actually some more ways that can make you been label. As example, your physical state. If you are short, you may be label as dwarf, or if you are stingy, you may be label as Mr Krab or something else.

Sometimes labeling people is a good thing such that people being motivated by his/her label, sometimes it doesn’t change anything but sometimes when you labeling people, you must beware because it can harm that individual or much worst, it can affect the society you live in.

For example, someone used to be a drug addict return to his/her hometown after being released and perhaps cured. We have been seeing this situation a lot in dramas or movies when the person labeled as drug addict return to his/her kampong, the villagers start to talk about it. Everybody from Makciks at the market, Pakciks at the warong and even kids at school talk about it. And then when something gone missing, villagers start to accused the drug addict without any hard evidence.

Sometimes this kind of people get their lesson after being bust once, sometimes it take more than once; may be twice, fourth or more but what I’m trying to say is someone bad not gonna be bad forever. We as a society must grouped together and unite to help and give this kind of guy a hope to change and become a better person in future, because after all, he/she is a part of our society. Don’t let our ego destroy somebody’s hope to be a changed man. Help him/her, don’t destroy him/her. Sure, he/she has done something wrong in his/her past but is there anybody who doesn’t? You couldn't change the past, but the future could be a different story. And it had to start somewhere.