Y'know. For a population so diverse, so varied, so fantastic. We use a lot of labels.

Wherever we go, with whomever we converse, we like to keep our reality stable.

We make matches, avoid mixes, we categorise people's personalities with care

And it catches, because the trick is, it simplifies humanity so we can socially prepare

This world is confusing so we strive to be the first to make sense of it all

It's mostly amusing, to be alive is to thirst to try to enthrall

To capture imaginations and a heart's fraction of anyone we happen to meet

Without hesitation engage in the art of interaction when we greet

We want to be outstanding to be more than just a member of the crowd

We're demanding that we be dismembered from another vox populi, if we're allowed

We want to be special. To be unique. To be essentially ourselves.

Yet we make all the others seem freaks if into individuality they delve

The first trick into letting others see you not just as another stereotype

Is to slip into the habit of never just painting pictures of people with the same stripes

Create a picture of the world which is fantastic in the range of colour and shade

The structure that'll unfold will spring elastic into new shapes, and leave you permanently amazed.

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