strawberry swing
People sure are eager to categorize you, aren’t they? To define you in a way they can easily understand — put you in a box where they’ll feel confident that they can find you forever afterward, whether you concur with their assessment of you or not.
It starts when you’re young: your elementary-school teachers want to know whether you’re a jock or a brainiac. In high school, they decide what you’re about based on whether you take shop or home ec. In college, they can’t wait for you to choose a major so they can consign you to a career and a future.
Sometimes, it works: the box you end up in is the box where you actually should be. But that’s not to say you couldn’t try out other boxes, and identities, if you got a mind to.