I can be all this and also have all that.

Making your opposites attract

Labels help us feel like something, act like something and become that something.

‘‘I am a writer. Writers write. By writing I became a writer.’’

Labels help us build.

But they must come with a chance to renew or an expiration date to discard them. They must last (at least internally) for as long as they are being consciously chosen.

How many labels come…