July 3, 2011

The namesake

I've never called out my name to refer to other in this life as on. I mean that I've never ever met a person having the name that of mine.
Does anyone feel good having a unique name which is mostly not heard of in and out? I just wonder about it. But then I seriously feel that what an odd feeling you would get when you find a person of the same name as yours and you have to call out for him or her? Or when you have a person of the same name as your classmate or office colleague, then it would be difficult to identify who is being called out? As I said, that
I've never experienced this as on so even with this very thought I get odd feeling. But then I do love my name let it be rare or not so common, I belong to it and it has given me an identity as on and will be with me throughout my life. In fact I love because don't have to share the common name.
Recently I came across this concept where in people can change their name. How odd? Is what I felt when I first heard of it. Having recently come across a phase where my cousin had a baby and I remember how excited she was before to decide as to what name she should give her. Being very close to each other she asked for my help and I tried to help her in finding a good name for my niece. I gave her list of names with the meanings and then after a discussion with her in-laws they finally decided for the best possible name. And I feel that, same might have been the case with all our parents. For few things in life all human beings are to behave mostly in same manner. As they say, the rational behavior. So let it be my parents or yours they would have put in those efforts and they would have also thought much before keeping your name the one which you   formally carried. So how could you just in a way decide it being bad/unfit? These days people literally got no sense of respect left for any one and not a percent of respect for others feelings. Others! Are your parents just others? Yes, if you can't be their how could they be your?
This is what it mean by such behavior. You don't even feel like being called what you have been since so long and now that you think you are grown up you don't seem to have even that sense that what is morally right and what is wrong. What your parents would feel that you aren't happy with the name they had given you with so many hopes. Some times people lose out all the logic.
Well let it be odd or even, common or uncommon, people could remember it or not, even though it's misspelled most of the times but still I love my name and it's all mine!

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