You aren’t basic.

I could sit here and tell you that you are incredibly and wonderfully unique because you are the only you there is, but I hope you already know that.  And while there are plenty of things that millions across the globe all have in common, those things about you don’t make you basic.  Liking the things you like make you you.

You like Starbucks?  Cool, me too.

You wear yoga pants on the regular?  Awesome, me too.

You enjoy rocking a topknot with third day hair?  Great!  I do too.

But none of those things make you basic.

Please stop labeling yourself as such.

You are more than that.

And so am I.

We live in a label frenzy.  Hashtag this.  Hashtag that.  Everyone is trying in some way to fit into a category.  And while “basic” is a relatively easy category to fit into, don’t put yourself in that box.  I was talking to a friend the other day who wanted to do something but refrained because how dare she be “so basic.”  And that’s when it hit me.  No.  That’s not how this life is supposed to work.

Not doing something you want to do because you don’t want to be put into a box

is just as bad as doing something just so you fit into a certain box.

Let’s all stop labeling everything and instead just be ourselves.

That’s so basic?

No.

That’s so Joey.