What’s in a name ?

BY FAITH SIMON 

Staff Writer

What can be said about a name?

Isn’t a name supposed to encompass the entirety of what it labels?

So what more can be said?

Everything.

A name is nothing when everything is just as sweet without it. 

A name can only define what someone already knows.

A name can do nothing but be a reminder;

A reminder of everything something is

And everything something isn’t,

A reminder of what can be waited for,

And what no longer exists.

If without a name everything is just as sweet, then why must we label things?

Why can’t we maintain happiness and purity

By just allowing everything to just exist?

Labels are things that can be used in vain:

To curse

To lie

To steal

An identity is so easy

When all you need is a name.

For if you call yourself something that must make it true!

False, because a name can’t encompass a being.

A name is only something that was decided upon because it “had” to be, not because they define all things. 

You have a name because the nurses wouldn’t let you leave the hospital untill you had a name.

Because how is someone supposed to communicate efficently

when they’re stuck replaying what a monkey wrench is

everytime they need to be handed it?

How is someone supposed to get your attention 

when they can’t summon you with a few syllables?

How are we supposed to function without labels if we can’t do all these things without them?

I recommend:

Respectfully,

And one step at a time.

So many people don’t like labels. Sadly, all that can be asked of you is human decency. If someone wishes to be unknown then let them. It is their life and if they choose to live it as a “they”, with a name that wasn’t assigned at birth, neither gender or both, long hair or short, contacts or glasses; it is none of your buisness. 

A rose will always be just as sweet by any other name. 

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