this is funny...

What's in a name?

My mom has never liked parents who christen their children with names of Gods and Goddesses! If you were to ask me why I can rattle off an explanation which is not only weird but also very amusing…
My mom teaches in a school where she really hates it when she has to scold children… screaming at them saying " Narayan why are you such a pain?" or screaming, "Ram when will you learn to behave more decently?"…. Or perhaps, "Saraswati please come dressed properly…" They are some of the names she has never liked. For that matter it does sound very strange because it sounds like you are actually screaming at God and even though it is only a name my mom finds it very uncomfortable and keeps blaming their parents for putting her in such an awkward situation.
Then you have names of those people who are very much unlike what their names suggests them to be. Take for example Komal I mean how can you possibly call a loud mouthed and rough woman Komal? Why would anyone call a dusky female Ujjwala? Or for that matter why would any be named Neelkamal when he or she is not blue but wheatish? How can anyone call someone Prasad when he never wants to share!
Theres another incident that comes my mind every time I think of names. I had a friend by the name Sorry well you don’t have to be sorry because her parents aren't! But the best thing is that the teachers in my institute got very confused. I remember this friend of mine who once happened to ask her name and Sorry replied Sorry. "No, no what is your name?" "Sorry", this went on for about 5 minutes, both of them got very infuriated and it took some time for me to make her understand that she was christened Sorry.
Right from the Shakespearean times names have always been a tag attached to one's personality. They also in themselves are attributes and names always connoted the same. Agreed that virtues and vices could be the best description of a person's identity but that was then… when we did not have any underlying meaning for the same. But now I find it very funny when Sorry told me that her sister is called 'Believe me'… I mean 'Believe me' that’s her name! And that’s not all, there's another sister… and her name is, hold your breath… 'Hate me'! And this is the absolute truth, believe me!
Well this is just a few of the weirdest names I have ever heard. But imagine a name like Patience or Gratitude… makes no sense right? Well two of my friends in Namibia are named Love and Peace. Don't ask me why… I have no idea. For me these names are plain weird. My friend Believe me once told me how she felt very weird the first time she was dumped because she had no idea why her boy friend kept making so many attempts to convince her that he was not interested in her anymore. I believe he kept saying Believe me, believe me I think we should not see each other any more. She naturally had no idea why he kept addressing her twice!
So that’s what names can do. I guess parents ought to be a little more thoughtful. Because believe me, Love is actually patience and I know you will never be Sorry about it!