"What is in a name? That which we call a rose, by any other name would smell as sweet," Shakespeare asked, in his tragedy Romeo and Juilet. When you stop and think about it, it's true. What is in a name? When we are born, our parents give us names, a first, out father's last name, and most times a middle name. Then through ur lives we may don a nickname we we may use almost as a mask. When we are eighteen, we can legally change our name to something else. But when you stop adn think about it, is there any real difference?
I went through life with the name Dylan, like Bob Dylan or Dylan Thomas. And after I grew up a bit, I adopted the nickname Lightning, and used it while out an d about to hide where I was from, to break away from my own family. Now taht may seem odd, but if you wanted to escape your parents and all ties to them, you'd do the same. Now after growing up even more, I look back and laugh. Though I still use the name Lightning, it doesn't seperate me from them as much as thought it did. Now I reach a different part of my life adn the thought of a different name comes up again.
Although I plan on waiting a little while longer, the thought of marrige has come up and peaked my interest in what will happen. It s a normal custom for the bride to take the groom's name, but what if I did the reverse? Although my name is Ok, what would happen if I took my grlfriends name instead? This is something that rarily happens. At most the name becomes hyphenated. Society, in a small sense, dictates that this is what should happen, and I just wonder what all people think about the groom taking his wives name.
