I understand that using acronyms and whatnot makes it easier at times to communicate. I also understand that specifying things - such as a 'favourite person' - can feel useful. I'm not criticising anyone who uses it, genuinely.

But it makes me uncomfortable. It feels like... if you choose to label that person, you're marking them. You're singling them out. You're actually making them more significant for calling them out in your brain as your 'favourite'. I understand how obsessive we can become towards people, how we seek that validation beyond anything and everything, but it just seems so incredibly unhealthy. Worse is that so many people seem to encourage it and indulge it rather than encourage thinking differently and everything.

And as much as we don't choose who we seek validation from, they don't choose it either. And I'd like to hope they don't label **us**.

I feel like we shouldn't lump all of these people together under one very possessive title. It seems deeply unfair to those individuals. I get that it's a recurring symptom, problem, whatever, but... I don't know. It just makes me really uncomfortable that we, as a community, don't seem to discourage it.