How does labeling affect a person

Most labels affect a person I na negative way. For example, a person may be labeled as "chubby" in middle school and even though they change, get taller and lose weight they will still be remembered as the "chubby kid" in middle school. In another example, they might be labeled as "stu. Pid" because they have said something out of context and people will remember them by that,even though now they might have their Bachelor's degree.

On the other hand, good labels could turn into bad impressions. Ex. You were labeled as pretty and smart in middle school, but something happened and things didn't go they way you wanted, so now your label will be used to describe how "good" you were then and how you are now.

But at the same time we could never know what people are actually thinking behind our back and how they are describing us. And we don't have to worry about labels we have, because they are just words said on what has happened in that one moment in the past.

the earthquake in haiti was a magnitude of 7.0 according to the u.s geological survey yet the smaller earthquake in haiti killed more than 200,000 and left more than 1.2 million people homeless. the chile earthquake was a magnitude of 8.8 and 500 times more stronger but chile's earthquake only injured 712 people.