First Description

Every object has a description that defines it. The first time we look to a defined object, an object that has a common base in our head, there is a description that comes out. When we look to a chair the description that we first think is to sit. When we look to a candle the first description is to give us light. A book is to read. But if we look deeper we can find other descriptions. In a chair we can find other labels. We can use it has a ladder or even to break it in somebody's back (exaggerating). A candle can be used to burn things. A book can be used has a weight to hold something. It depends on the idea we have kept from that object. The person that first used the candle to start a fire and not to use it has light, every time that person sees a candle the first description that comes to his/her mind is to put things on fire.

This happens with people too. But with people we usually hold the bad descriptions. When we see somebody we reach into our memories and we find that label that defines that person as a boring person, an annoying person. But if we look deeply into our memories we will find other labels. Labels that define that person as a nice, kind person. But few bother to look deep to find these good descriptions. It is what it is. We are what we are and we'll keep on smiling at the people we don't like and keep thinking that that person is the worst person in the whole world, when maybe it's the kindest person in the world, but we will always see them with our first description. And from then on that person as our own official label.

Charles Henry