Not only for namesake‼

Call me obsessed, stupid, and useless or whatever but here I am…with yet another blog. It is like somehow I need to give a vent to my thoughts, to what I feel…and being the girl I am, I have to share it with each of my acquaintances and this is the best way I can do it‼

The other day while doing a feature article, I came across this issue of changing the bride’s first name post marriage and how many contemporary females are putting up a stand against it. Previously, it did not seem to be a that big great deal…don’t know why it should be now…but I actually gave some serious thought to it.

This has been done quite often in my family and I did not really seem to mind it…and well…nobody cared also even if I did mind…so it was all normal…

But while answering a certain someone’s query over the issue, it was necessary I look at it from her point of view…as the dearest Ian Thornton (Vasundhara, u know who :P ) had said, put oneself in the other person’s situation and think….

And think I certainly did and had some amazing revelations…

It would be ridiculous if someone tried to did that…I mean hell with Shakespeare for his “what’s in a name” thing…for me, everything is there in it. So much so that I wouldn’t have some special people in my life call me by any other name, than their own modified ‘love names’.

For instance, I would fail to answer if someday my dad or even mom would call me “Vidhi”…it has always been Chinki and it would always be that…even when they would try to do it during PTA meetings, they would sound so phony…as if am not the one they are talking about…some long lost child of theirs…

Imagine! if my brat-as-hell brother were to call me anything apart from what he calls me..(I can’t tell you the name btw,…it is too sweet (read: ridiculous) to be disclosed here… \m/

Amusingly, I have as many names as there are special people in my life…and I hate it when they try to swap names or call me what someone else does…I mean my stupid brother Nishant had taken up this habit of calling me Chi…when all his life he had called me “Chinu”…how much I had ranted at him…and made sure that he gives up calling me Chi…as it is Chinu and Nishu rhyme so well….the moron needed some serious convincing before understanding this simple thing…phew…

And it is not like Chi was his innovation..it was given by my very dear friend…Priyanka Jajodia because she thought Cheena was too long (talk about being stupid‼)….my entire family would make fun of me when this female would shout Chi…Chi at the top of her voice…but then they got used to it (as they have to our various other eccentricities) and the trademark name stuck by…and trust me love…nobody says it better than you do….in fact I don’t let anybody else use it only….<3>

Even PD is so close to heart (Divyanshu..stop grinning :D)…though I swear I would have murdered the innovator back then in 8^th standard for coming up with PD (read: Phoolan Devi). I know, I know…it is simply heartless to call an epitome of amicability by such outrageous epithets…but some people find it difficult to behold someone superior to them :D :D….in fact they need a dose of hard bound history books in order to come by :P :P

Similarly VD (Anurag), Sicko ( Aamod), Vids (Suru), Chinks (Naresh Mama), China (Raj bhai), Behenji (Paresh mama), Chinka (Badi mom), Babes (Shona aka Radhika), Coconut Girl, …the list is endless…I may have forgotten to include a few…sincerest apologies to those special ones who use those special names J

And yes, Jojojojo…Vidhi does sound the best when you say it :D :D…Suru…I also like when you say it in your signature style…Viddddhii :D

Hiral shah, high time you decided on a special name for me…refrain from Vidhu to rhyme it with Hiru…pleaseeeeeeeee….( and ya..i almost forgot it…am sorry again for not writing your blog…am so sorry… :P :P )

Imagine!…I got lost to this extent while coming up with a perfect and pragmatic answer to the query…and I knew it then…the importance of the given and special names…they are a part of a person’s being…a person’s existence…someone just can’t go about changing them like it is his or her property and not someone else’s to whom it actually belongs.…

Trust me if I had my way, I would come up with an entirely new name and secure IPR over it….

Suru also seemed to share in my opinion and said that she will change the name of entire khandaan of the groom instead of changing her name \m/…yo Girl :D

In fact, while I was at it, that is self-introspection, I came up with a classic Epitaph for myself (as it is am nearing the stage at a lightning speed, what with my deteriorating health L)…

death is considered as being born into some another world…so what could my name be there?

“O thou invisible spirit of mine,

if thou hast no name to be known by,

let us call thee _______”

I shall fill in the gap, when I breathe my last…and people..Please refrain from doing the needful :D