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HelpRe: Why Do You Love/Regret Your Name?
in reply to a message by DarkLily243
I don't really believe in naming "after" people. To often it feels more like the parents did it out of a sense of duty or tradition rather than a genuine honor to the person they named after, and as you found out, things can go wrong ...
People dislike their names for a lot of reasons: it doesn't sound or look good to them for purely aesthetic reasons, it has a bad association either from the start or later on, it sounds silly with their last name, they are always having to spell or correct it, there's too many other people with that name and they get tired of being Emily J or Tall Ryan ...
Before you criticize a man, walk a mile in his shoes. That way, when you criticize him, you're a mile away and you have his shoes!
Steve Martin
People dislike their names for a lot of reasons: it doesn't sound or look good to them for purely aesthetic reasons, it has a bad association either from the start or later on, it sounds silly with their last name, they are always having to spell or correct it, there's too many other people with that name and they get tired of being Emily J or Tall Ryan ...
Before you criticize a man, walk a mile in his shoes. That way, when you criticize him, you're a mile away and you have his shoes!
Steve Martin
