I love my name!!

This is a very strange thing to write about I know, but I felt compelled.

Does anybody know how it feels to not only have a common first but an equally common surname?

In my school, there was a boy in my year. He was my friend because our name {both first and last} were the same right down to the spelling (!) and as a result we were put in the same section for our 14 years at school (starting from std 4).

I don't know, how,you feel like (if you have the misfortune of a common name) calling another with your name, but I feel weired! I keep wondering how the name should be pronounced, what is the correct intonation, after all your name is something that belongs to you but others use it much often than you.

I love my name, don't get me wrong! I love it when they call out my name in prize distribution, as a winner, as a performer. I love it when..........whisper my name in my ears (: M), somehow it sounds perfect. And they say they love the way it rolls off his tongue, how would I not like my name! ( But he think he calls out to one of the other of my namesakes in the same way!!!)

But my patience runs short when I can never make an E-Mail account with my own name without adding 28994272628.......!!! Like I am the millionth sample or something!

Anyway, at the end of the day, after all grumbling and mumbling, I still love my name, after all it is my name..............
--pK

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