Thursday, March 25, 2010

What's in the name?


What's in the name?
A very famous quote, but I did't know that I will start my blog with this. Even though some would say name is an artificial meaningless convention. Some may say, but i do not believe in that and feel so strongly about what a name should be. To me it is my identity. Today I was given not a new name but a whole new meaning of my name. No I did not change my religion or status or anything that lead to this change. A dear friend gave me something which I can for sure consider the best gift ever. You must be thinking, why I am so sore about this whole name thing, its just that growing up, i never liked my name. For many reasons, I can't list all but the ones that tops the charts are..any guesses ??
It is such a common name and my siblings have a unique ones. Secondly it is already so short that you could hardly create a nick name of short name out of it and obviously my siblings have nice nicknames too. "Why?" was the question that I would always ask my parents. They could not understand what my issue was. They liked it. But anyways the most hurting part was that it meant "limit" or some would say "restriction"..yes , you heard it right. I could never understand why my parents who loved me to death could do this to their sweet little girl. May be they did not know the meaning or may be they did not do enough research. So many ifs thens elses would come to my mind but nothing could be done, destiny was written. Fate was sealed.
Anyways, I was living with my not so great name and today all of a sudden someone gave me a whole new meaning to my name. And source of their information..obviously one of our modern day guru - INTERNET. Why I myself did not googled it and saved myself some pain. But now i just feel elated because my name has an alternate meaning which i really like - "Treasure" tada.... Don't ask me what my name is. Because as I said earlier, (ya ya..i mean as Shakespeare said) what's in the name?.

2 comments:

  1. That is wonderful, ...! No, I am not telling your name :) A nice start :)

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  2. Hmmm.. Kya baat hai maza aa gaya padh ke :) If my math and your understanding is strong. Then I can say there is another meaning that can be derived is "Chupa Rustam" ;)
    More is expected so kaam pe lag jaao :)

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