Monday, October 15, 2007

Names

What is in a name? Nothing but a lot of implications about who you are and where you came from. I've always disliked my name, not in itself really, but in the fact that I do not feel like my name- sometimes on particularly heady days I even forget what the hell it is- it takes me a minute to recall. I am not attached to it. I don't feel it represents me. Along with the name comes a sort of ownership. It is the name that was given me. It is the identity that was given me, I didn't make it, I can't be it, I don't like it, and I think I may finally change my name after a life time of ill fit.

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

I suggest a name like Isabelle or Emma for u.

Kim said...

Thanks, brutus, although the thought of changing my name to an infinitive verb is calling me.

JL Kulakowski said...

Do it! Do it!

We are...becoming, no?