TYPE A OR TYPE B?

The internet moves incredibly fast these days, often in directions that, if I’m honest, I sometimes struggle to keep up with. Trends appear, take over our feeds for weeks, and disappear before we even have time to think about them. That gave me the idea of writing about one that stayed on my social media for quite a while. It’s already faded a little now, but I never found the right moment to write about it so maybe this is also a reminder that it’s okay to reflect on something even after everyone else has moved on.

The trend was simple: Are you a Type A or a Type B person?
A way of defining someone based on how they act, move through life, make decisions, or even the way they think. At first, it feels harmless, almost fun. But is it really possible to summarize someone’s personality into one category? And more importantly, why are we so eager to try?

Like most people, I started playing along. I found myself analyzing my own habits, comparing my reactions to the videos I was seeing, trying to figure out which “type” I belonged to. And somewhere in the middle of that process, I realized how strange it actually was. I was trying to fit myself into a box that someone else had created, as if a few relatable traits could somehow explain the complexity of a person.

That’s when it hit me: what a silly way it is to flatten someone’s way of living into a label.

Of course, trends like this are meant to be entertaining. They’re not trying to become personality tests or psychological theories. But I do think they reveal something about us. We seem to be constantly looking for ways to make people easier to understand, to reduce complexity into categories that feel neat, familiar, and easy to share.

The thing is, people aren’t neat. We’re inconsistent. We contradict ourselves. We behave one way in certain situations and completely differently in others. We grow, change, surprise ourselves, and carry experiences that shape us in ways no trend could ever capture.

Maybe that’s exactly what makes us interesting.

I think we’ve become so used to defining ourselves through labels whether they’re personality types, aesthetics, attachment styles, or internet trends that we sometimes forget we’re allowed to exist outside of them. A label can describe a moment, a tendency, or a small part of who we are, but it should never become the limit of our identity.

And honestly, I think that’s something worth celebrating. The fact that we’re more complicated than any category and impossible to summarize in a fifteen-second TikTok.

Maybe the real answer isn’t whether you’re Type A or Type B. Maybe it’s accepting that you’re a little bit of both, a little bit of neither, and a lot more than either label could ever explain.