Picking names for things is hard.
I've just spent the last 15 minutes trying to decide on a name for my blog, and THIS was the best i could come up with? you all will have to deal with it.
this is what i think tho, see, i really feel sorry for the father of my future children.
AND THIS IS NOT FOR THE OBVIOUS REASONS (ie they are now stuck with me for life since we now share a child and even if we break up they still have to visit the kid or at least pay me child support and if they dont they are a deadbeat and i will HUNT.THEM.DOWN)
but it is mainly because i wont be able to give the poor kid a name.
lets say for instance, the future child is a girl. i'll go through all the names i like and think of reasons not to name them that. "ohh but i knew a girl with that name and she was a major bitch" or "oh theres a celebrity with that name, i dont want people thinking i names it after them" (and yes, for the record, in that train of thought any child born after 1996 with the name britney IS NAMED after britney spears)
i've always liked the name chloe but renee has a dog called chloe so now that name is gone.
on the plus side for my kid, it definitely wont have a weird name. this is because i have a.. its not weird. lets call it unique. i have a unique name. and while this is good (there are no other kids with the same name as you in your year so none of this putting the first letter of your last name after to distinguish you from the other kids) it also SUCKS HARD because you cant get any of the cool personalised stuff that EVERYONE ELSE HAS.
thats right. no fake number plates, no pens, no mugs, nothing. every other member of my DIRECT FAMILY (ie mum, dad, brother) have name key rings, but me?
NONE.
NOT ONLY THAT, but the kids with the wierd names ALWAYS get their names spelt wrong. i dont know how many times i've had to say, no e on the end of that, no double n I!E! not y. and then after all that effort, you get whatever your name is on/in and its spelt wrong. and some people might just deal with that and take it all in stride, but NOT ME. because im not a nice person. i want to attack those people. its more annoying when its at school and the teachers spell it wrong. i just think, you know, if i spelt something important wrong in an essay i'd get a GIANT RED CIRCLE and the correct spelling above it WRITTEN VERY DARKLY.
should i have, in my school days, handed them back whatever they had given me with my name on in with 3 e's instead of 1 with a giant red circle around it and the correct spelling written above it VERY DARKLY? or would it have been pointless and i just would have gotten detention?
my point is this: while interesting names are all well and good, think of the CHILDREN.
1. they have to be able to spell it
2. if its too weird they'll get teased.
having paid out all the weird names, i think i should probably point out that boring names can be shit to.
like, all the people with real plain names that then start spelling it different to be cool, or change it all together.
and what about all the celebrities who HAD boring names and then changed them. hmm?
so all in all, just like the title says, names suck.
generally no one is happy, unless you are named after a disney princess and then you walk around saying, yeh, im just like belle from beauty and the beast.
so yes
the name belle is flawless, and THAT will be the name of my future daughter.
possibly isabelle, because i like that name.
til next time
xx
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