People are too amazing to be labeled and therefore limited by this or that. A person is a whole entity, magnificent beyond comprehension. We only get to know parts of him. There is always more there that we haven't seen before.
When we meet someone, we can be excited about all the things we discover about him, but must not assume those things we discover set boundaries on who he might be. We can't justly assume, for instance, that if a person likes math, she is not creative. We cannot justly assume that because a person is a Christian, he doesn't have fun or isn't any fun. We can't justly assume that a person who doesn't have a college degree doesn't know the things of higher learning or have profound wisdom.
Labeling someone is putting him in a box, pigeonholing him. It is identifying him with our own definition. This limits our view of him. It is not looking at him as a whole person. If we look at the whole person, who he is cannot be defined; he is simply sublime.
When we love, and view people with eyes of love, we do not limit them; we empower them.
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