dtoxic wrote:
To anyone that is really unhappy with their name - change it! There is a lot of meaning and associative power in names, so if your associations are negative just wipe the slate clean. I had a roommate who did just that, he had a last name he despised and he wasn't too cool with how his parents had operated. He thought about it for a while and came up with a new middle and last name that had favorable symbolic associations, saw a judge and had it legalized. He was psyched the day he came back from the court or wherever and it was official.
Just remembered that old joke about the guy who goes to the civil registry to get his name changed (loose translation):
"What's your name?"
"John Sh*t."
"No wonder you want to change it. And what do you want it changed to?"
"Peter Sh*t."
18 Apr 2010, 12:58 am
