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All In A Name

Shucks, missed it by less than an hour.  Oh well, I'll just write two things today.  That should make up for it.

A name is a way we identify someone.  Everyone has one.  Most have a first and a last.  Some just have one if you're famous enough, or egotistical enough.  There is one name that has come to haunt me though.

Everywhere I go I seem to find the name.  It has different forms, but it is still the same name.  And it's kind of funny how often I see it now.  It's a lot like it was after I got my new car.  Before I had seen it everywhere, and then when I was actually looking for a new car I didn't see it at all.  Once I bought it, there it was again all over the place.

Kind of the way this name has been.  Didn't see it all that often, but now that it actually has an affect on me I see it and hear it more than I had before.  Not the same person, but different people or characters in TV shows or movies.  No escaping it.

But that seems to be the way everything goes when it has some affect on you.  Always comes up more, just to cause more pain.

But with a name, comes my name.  Most of my life I didn't know anyone with my name.  There was a few every so often, but throughout school there was no one.  Well there was one, but he left quickly.  He knew...

But at my current job, it is a very common name.  It took me awhile to get over the perk of the ears when I heard the name called thinking it was me they were talking about.  Now I don't even think twice, which actually means I sometimes ignore people that are actually trying to get my attention.

One final thing about names.  If I would have been a girl, my name would have been April.  Would have been lame being named after a month.  Would have been really lame since I had an aunt April who was not a great person.  Thankfully I didn't have to deal with that.

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