BrazenlyBad's Fatal Flaw

Microsoft’s Online Dictionary defines the word “categorize” as follows:

TO PLACE SOMEBODY OR SOMETHING IN A PARTICULAR CATEGORY AND DEFINE OR JUDGE THE PERSON OR THING ACCORDINGLY

I have been criticized for doing just this!

How does one not categorize things? It is how we put order in our lives. It is how we make decisions. It is how we define ourselves.

Now… If I were making snap judgments about things and categorizing them, I could see some validity in this criticism, but I am not. What I am doing is trying to make some sense out of the craziness I have found myself in.

Last night I saw the movie “Match Point” (Very Good! Excellent actually) I was drawn to this movie by its trailer, more specifically these words—Between Love and Lust, Between All and Nothing.

These words hooked me into the movie, because I don’t like being in between… I want to know where I stand. I like things defined. I could be at either end and be fine or moving from one end to another, but stuck in between is uncomfortable and waste of my time.

Friend, Date, Lover, Partner, Boyfriend
Causal Sex, Torrid Affair, Serious Relationship.
Beginning, Middle, End, Past

These are the Categories! Any combination can be spontaneous, exciting, fun, boring, challenging, horrible, or great. Any combination I am open to. Any combination may or may not work for me depending on who negotiate a deal with.

I guess the criticism goes to my reluctance to negotiate a deal or to my content to sit on the bench and study the crowd and not work it; because whether I categorize or not… I cannot have any combination of the above if I just sit here making snap judgments about potential dealmakers.

Okay I get.