It's easy to be cynical and write everyone off as all the same, or simple. But what is easiest is not always right. Rarely, really.
It seems like, with people, there's always a little something you don't know about them that makes you see everything else in a different light. It's surprising how much everything really does have a reason, even if it's sometimes hard to see. Buried way down deep inside is a motivation for every behavior, no matter how absurd.
Generally, I do think people can be placed into categories, but we don't recognize just how many categories there are. There are a bunch of different traits, disorders, tendencies, whatever that we can have, but there's just so many combinations possible that it creates the everybody-is-a-unique-snowflake allusion.
There's a billion paths our lives can take and all these small, varied circumstances mold people into the complex creatures they are. Unless we follow a person around every second of every day, we'll never completely understand what, to use a cliche, makes them tick.
I guess my point is that we shouldn't judge people, but that's stupid because we are always going to judge people. It cannot be helped. Plus it sounds dreadfully after school specialish. I guess, then, that my point is we should keep an open mind about people and allow the inevitable judgments to be altered by inevitable developments as you get to know a person.
After all, who wants to be over-simplified?
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