“I’m so sick of immaturity, of name-calling, of labels, of gossip.. Coco Chanel

Chanel long attributed her rise from extraordinarily humble beginnings to become a symbol of wealth, access and good taste as the result of her immunity to the critiques of others She is believed to have said that it was her very differences from the rest, at the time,that granted her advantageAttributed with changing the perception of suntans from being the bastion of the working-class laborer to representing the idle leisure of permanent vacation,Chanel soaked-up criticism as she did the sunCoco owned her cuckoo While name-calling appears to be something hardwired in nearly every human, it has a remarkable impact on most of us Even the youngest child intuitively attacks her perceived transgressors with a pointed verbal assault.She demands “Give me back my toy, you monkey head”And the so-called“monkey-headed” nursery mate retorts “No chance, stinky face” Now the fight is on! Words, then shoving then tears all from a denunciation that makes no senseAdults are little better.We wither as the insults are hurled at us We resent those who’ve sent themWe plot our vengeance because of the offenceMostly the abuses are inconsequential.Often, we could care less about the person labeling us Yet, why does it get under our skin?Why do we care so much about something so insignificant asserted by someone so inconsequential? Likewise how often are we responsible for wrongly castigating others? Would we care less about the invectives launched at us if we weren’so keen to hoot them at others?