It’s all in the name

If you could choose your name what would it be?

 If you do not like your own name, what do you do about it? Change it!!! That’s right, not only celebrities and famous politicians have the right to change their ugly, weird or boring name to another. If your name is Mandy Dicks, and for obvious reasons, you can’t stand your name being shouted out during second period in your English Lit class. When you’re eighteen change that bad boy. Why would you keep going out like a weirdo with such an awful last name, maybe you see yourself more as a Mandy Micheals, or a Mandy Jefferson. You shouldn't have to feel the need to just accept it! My sister hates when I change my name to sound different than it’s originally supposed to me, she pressures me to “say it the right way” as if I owe her something.

 I always tell her I can pronounce my name anyway I please and so should she. The name my parents gave to me on my birth certificate isn't written in stone and it should never be. I should have the liberty as a person to change my name and be called whatever I want, if I want to be JoJo La’Frangual, I should be. But all joking aside to me names can be an interesting conversation starter or just a major head ache. My name is so not me plus it seem to be very hard for newcomers to pronounce. Sigh.

Unlike an Erika, or a Nancy. I chose Kelly not necessarily because it is easy to say but because I’ve always loved the name Kelly, some of the nicest, easy going people are named Kelly. To balance out the commonness of Kelly I wanted a hard core last name. I was drawn towards Hispanic names like Rodriguez, Hernández, Lozada etc. I liked the Hispanic names for their exoticism. Here I am with a common, easy to say, none unique biblical name: Samuel. The name is also English, there’s nothing exotic nor special about being a Samuel.

Now that I think about it as I type, I do not want a name my family inherited from slave masters as well. The Spanish names had a certain ring to it that was better than the too hard to say African names or Middle Eastern names I looked over.

Eventually I felt pairing Kelly with Rodriguez was too common place, so my search continued. Moscato just sort of popped into my head. Kelly Moscato just had a nice feel and ring to it. I believe Moscato is an Italian name also, to my amusement, I found out it’s a name of a wine.

 An Italian last name was right up my alley way since it was exotic, something you wouldn't expect my last name to be when looking at me. I haven’t come up with a middle name just yet but in the future I will. I want a cool middle name as well maybe even a typically guy’s name to excite things up. All in all I want my new alias to flow with ease and grace with a certain sensibility. _KM