Monday, August 29, 2005

The Name Game Pt II
I know that about 11 or 12 years ago I had this particular personal curiosity come to me. I now think of it as rather hilarious the logic I used to come up with such a question.

Why do people have the same names? Why would someone want to name their child a name someone already has? If everyone is all their own person then shouldn’t they have a name that’s all their own? Did they run out of names? No, that can’t be it. So why then?! o_0

Then I decided that when I grew up I wouldn’t name my kids any common names because it just did not make sense to me at all then to do so. My reasons as to why a lot of us share the same name:

- There are more people than there are names, you know
- Some people have no problem with/love common names
- People have never put much thought into the matter
- Not everyone likes what’s different and refreshing
- Common names are just liked among lots of people the reason so many wind up with them

However, I could understand how a person would name their child after someone truly awesome in their lives like a certain overseer in my early childhood that got a huge kick out of teasing kids, especially me. And even without that, Lisa, is still a clever name in its own little four-lettered, feminine way.

I’ve come to the conclusion that it’s possibly silly to think of why people continue to use the same names and that only I, over 10 years ago and now, would with all my “relevant” curiosity even ponder such a thing. ^^

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Shinmaru: Yeah, but your's is one of the best of its kind! Because it's Greek, it has the French equivalent of 'Michel' and there are some very famous people by that name.

Joey: Now, if I do recall, 'Joey' is one of my favorite names/nicks!
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