Change your name change your life
And no I don't mean on CS although some of us did and there was a real difference
How much does your name influence your life? When someone gives you a nickname, is it an annoyance or a relief? Lovers give each other pet names - a subconscious desire to change their loved one into a person who belongs only to them.
Slightly worrying when the new lover is called by the pet name given to the ex, mind. "Darling" is one thing, "Squooglemix" may be another.
If your name is, for example, Benjamin, you may introduce yourself as Benjamin, or Ben, or Benny, or Benjy, whichever is your 'happy' name.
When others add their own variations, especially when they've just met you, how irritating is that? It's like they don't even know you and already they're trying to change you. I don't even answer to the name Liz, not because I dislike the name, I simply assume the person is talking to someone else. It is absolutely not me.
I'd love to know if anyone has completely changed their name, even if only for a specific group of people, and noticed a real difference. Believers in numerology insist that changing your name - changing one letter can make the difference - can change your life. I have now been known in real life as Biff for over a year - I like it, and I have certainly changed in some ways, so it made me curious.
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How deflating, nothing in recent comments caught your eye as worthy of discussion.
I just saw you were online so called in to say hello
Sometimes we have no choice but to cut someone down to size. And, he asked so nicely, it was hard to say no
Oh yes, that pang of nostalgia. Some even make it sound like music to my ears
Yes Biff son lives in Scotland so i visit and he takes me around. He lives on outskirts of innverness. We have a map and mark were we have been. He reckons when i pop my clogs he will put some ashes in the sea at John-o0Groats and my other son down south can pop the rest at lands end ha ha very fiting for a mover.
Sorry Biff..
'Changing' a name is just really being known by one other than the formal name given at birth. It doesn't even mean changing it - Cher, for instance, and Madonna, were presumably not called by just one name at school and before they started making their 'brand'. Astronaut Buzz Aldrin, as I said in an earlier comment, wasn't called Buzz when born, it was a family nickname. Many of the commenters have said they resisted some nicknames and approved of others.
So you are unusual. You did of course change your name on CS, unless of course your birthname was Whatyou etc, which would be really very unusual.
I've been called dear,honey pie just to name a couple.I got so over the years that just as long as they called it didn't bother me at all.
MiMi is dying...
MiMi got the flu
MiMi needs TLC and BLT...
Art was busy on the phone earlier on and MiMi threw a fit!
I met her over the weekend and she had about 10 life-threatening ailments. The worst being a cut finger
MiMi just needs to be waited upon....
She is very funny, and loves being as annoying as possible
Hmmmmm.....
But Biff wouldn't like those kinds of words on her blog
But Molly....
Whatyou, that's interesting, so no-one has ever called you by any name except the one you were given at birth? That's quite unusual, many people have family nicknames, or school nicknames, or even get to be called Mum (or Dad) for a while.
Yep, I like people calling me by my name, even my partners. My blood family call my by my middle name, and only them are allowed to do so. It's an odd quirk of mine. My dad calls me "wolf" as a pet name, maybe you could say that is my nickname? I don't know, friends always called me by my name, I did have kinda nicknames at work but never really had an 'official' one.
"'Changing' a name is just really being known by one other than the formal name given at birth. It doesn't even mean changing it - Cher, for instance, and Madonna, were presumably not called by just one name at school and before they started making their 'brand'. Astronaut Buzz Aldrin, as I said in an earlier comment, wasn't called Buzz when born, it was a family nickname. Many of the commenters have said they resisted some nicknames and approved of others."
Yeah, but having a nickname isn't really changing your name, is it?
"So you are unusual. You did of course change your name on CS, unless of course your birthname was Whatyou etc, which would be really very unusual."
Haha I was about to say, yep, no one has ever given me a nickname 'officially'. -Whatyou- is my new nickname and I like it!
Bye, honey. If you can't remember my name, you just got renamed history ...
Mind you, I say that, I never minded being called hen in Scotland. When my daughter came to live and work with me in her first summer in the UK I warned her to expect it and she got really indignant. 'Anyone who calls ME hen,' she declared, 'will get an earful on the spot'
So we get into the lunch queue in the canteen, and the woman serving said 'what you fancy, hen?' and daughter, meek as milk, says 'I'll have the curry please ...' you can train anyone with food
Even though I agree with you 100% as to the priorities
Every case is probably different but in theory it evolves because people think it suits you, AND you like it enough you start using it when you introduce yourself to people because it feels right.
Hope Whatyou works out for you
Stephen Colbert feels moved to mock. Huh. Half the 49 year olds on this website know better.