Names

(Posted this on Where I Belong blog as well)

"What's in a name that which we call a rose by any other word would smell as sweet"
Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare

Well, the issue on names suddenly pop up on my head. It's not exactly random, it deals with issues of identity...

Anyway, I thought of responding to a different name every day/week/month. I wonder how that would be. I guess sometimes we are so attached to our name that we don't hear anything but our names. I shall try it next week. Hehez...

Back to the Romeo and Juliet statement... I read an article some time last year or the year before that names actually do make a difference. A rose would not smell as sweet if we know it as "feces" or something. That's the general idea.

If we observe the peopel around us, some people with the same names actually turn out to be pretty similar. That leaves us to think...

Lesson:
Never give your child a bad name. ;)