Batty.......oh, definetely....words have power. We dont even recognize it at the moment. Words define us and our world and so why not a name?
I know why i chose mine. And there is always a reason, even silly , why a name its chosen.......I can't imagine having chose something like Pussilicious07.....LOL....
Difficult is right: since the acient times the name of a person was the most important possession.....the family's name was something to defend with the life....in the Middle Age not having a respected name, no matter how poor you might have been, was the lowest condition of all.
Now i am curious....which was your previous name? Can you say? And why you chose Battycat then?....:-)
batty ~ well yeah names do affect not only the one using it but the others around too. Specially online where you dont have the actual person beside you. You made a good observation.
Names help to form first impressions when you know nothing else about the other person. Its like body language in real life that we pick up unconsciously.
Like the first thought that came to mind about you was an image of a cat! As for me, my name defines me. Its my identity.
As the Latin phrase goes:
Omen Est Nomen. Name is Desteny (your name is your desteny)
I am a true believer of that. My online name is the same on every site, I only change the O to the front instead putting it to the end, and I only do that if for some reason my original doesn't work out.
It is my name in it's original form. I am the very same person online as I am in my personal life.
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I just might not have enough imagination or creativity to make up cool names. For sure I wouldn't remember all kinds of different names all the time. I am a person of habbits and patterns. I like to eat the same kind of food, use the same parfume or toothpaste, etc... So I use this name all the time for a very selfish reason - to make my own life easier.
What do people get out of it? I know most people have a hard time reading it, spelling it, pronouncing it. They even have a hard time to write a short name for it, since no one knows where to devide it, what to cut off and what to leave on. And I kind of like that mistery about it. If you read my blogs, the truth is that I am an open book. Actually, way too open, way too honest. So at least my name can give me a bit of a spice.
There is one thing I absolutely love about my name. Once people learn it, they never forget it. No matter if you've learnt to spell it, or actually pronounce it, you will always remember that Zsuzsa, or it's more personal form, Zsuzsi, is a Hungarian female name. Some even remember that most Hungrian Jewish girls have this name because it originates from one of the oldest Hebrew names there are ( along with Judit, Eva, Eszter and Zsofi), but only if I actually told them that. But once you learn to pronounce it, I know for a fact, it stays in your head. People always tell me after years, that it is one they cannot forget. Not to mention that if you hear some one talking about Zsuzsa, you know he is talking about me - unless you are in Hungary, or in a group of Hungarians, where this is one of the most common names regardless to religion.
There was a time I did not want to use Zsuzsa, but my middle name instead, because I thought it sounded more exotic. It was around the time I've got my ID for the first time, and I signed it using only my middle name. That marked me forever, cause from that point on my legal name has changed and people started calling me that other name. It was fun at first but soon enough I realised that the name doesn't fit me, I couldn't connect to it, and I started to hate being called anything than my original name. By that time it was too late, and the name just stucked, and I had to explain to people all the time that my original name is Zsuzsa and I want them to call me that. Sure enough, I immediatelly came off as a wierdo and my job got just that much harder to make people like me. Only after returning to Israel (two years ago) I've changed my name legaly back to it's original form, but still leaving my middle name too. Omen Est Nomen, Omen Est Nomen......
Now I can actually show people that my name is, in fact, Zsuzsa, and I am not just being weird.
Only friends and family call me Zsuzsi, or if a Hungarian person really likes me. I identify with Zsuzsi more than I do with Zsuzsa, only because I am still that little girl I used to be when I was a child. But I am used to be called Zsuzsa despite that it is a colder way to use this name. I guess it is my adult self, while Zsuzsi is the child in me.
I don't know, but thinking about it, it kind of makes sense.
Good blog!
Z
Destiny - ok, i'll watch out for it.
Moonriver - hi, I loved the pics
