The holiday season is in full swing and I head to my friend’s Becky and Fred’s for a great party. While there Suzanne and I joked about the new pop culture term “cougar”. Cougar is an older woman who dates are is interested in younger men. This got to be thinking about how we label things in life and how that affects our outlook. We are quick to understand things so we add labels to them which may or may not be right. Either way this labeling ends up really affected how we feel about other people or even ourselves. A cougar, before we came up with the term, would be considered pathetic for going after younger men and not being married and in a stable relationship. Now, we have a different outlook. Older woman who chose not to settle for just anyone and isn’t afraid to go after what they want. It is all how we look at it.

It happened with being a housewife. Housewives were never seen as cool and a lot of people looked down on them. In Sex and the City, Charlotte quit her job to stay home when she married Trey and the girls had a hard time with it. It wasn’t until television shows like Desperate Housewives and Real Life Housewives of Orange County that we started think being a housewife was cool. It took us seeing a different perspective to change how we felt about it.

I remember my friend West and I going out all the time and was tired of all the skinny boys talking about 6 packs. How hot 6 packs were and how they spend hours working on theirs. One night, after another boring conversation with strangers about 6 packs, West said, “Why would you want a 6 pack, when you can have a keg?” I loved it. Again it was all about how you looked at it.

Think about all the labels that you give yourself or others give you and see how you can change them from negative to positive. If you can’t, then just do not accept them. You do not need them in your life!

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