My
name is Ann, Ann Maria Cleetus. I kinda did not like my name when i was at
school due to the fact that it was very long and was divided into three parts,
whereas all my other friends had just two parts and was easy to spell out like ‘Aswathy
or Chithra or Krishna’. But for me I had to spread out my name like ‘Ann’ space
‘Maria’ space ‘Cleetus’. And if someone asked my name, it was very difficult to
say the full thing out and at most instances i had to repeat my name twice for
the fact that it was not understood and not clear to the listener. I don’t know if it was the way I pronounced my
name or have they not heard about such a name!Also people tend to call me
'Annmarie' or 'Annmariya' without a space in between and often wrote it wrong
as well but that was not who actually i was and hated it when my name got
altered.
Things
changed when i joined college and i realized saying your full name was not
essentially important. Earlier i used to think, what my dad would feel if i did
not tag along his name along with mine when someone asked for my name. In
college, i would just mention my name as 'Ann', simple and sweet and that's
when i started to like it. Since it’s college, i got all weird and funny tags
like 'Annakutty','Annammo' and very many other names (hard to put on public…hehehe)etc.
Another
fact I noticed about my name was that when they call me ‘Annammo’, they call me
with so much love that I can even feel it in their very tone. ‘Ann’
is a very old name originated from Greek or Latin or Hebrew (any one of those)…Oh
ya! The meaning of Ann is ‘grace’. I
do get complements from people saying that I am graceful:-P (I dunno how much truth
there is to that sentence). And I am not sure if a name actually represents a
person whom he or she is.
Nowadays,
without my provocation friends call me ‘Annammo’ instead of ‘Ann’. It gets
surprising when distant friends call me that. I dunno why they call me, may be
they find it easier to call or call me out of love (I love you guys then for
this reason).
So bottom line even though I used to hate my name when I was a kid now I am really proud to say that I hold a very prestigious, popular and beautiful name, ‘Ann’ . Thank you to all my dear friends because without you guys I don’t know if I would ever come to love my name with a whole heart.
What!!!! your name has a story too....tell me i would like to know? also tell me the meaning of your names, i wish to know:-)
One thing i forgot to tell you and which i feel is more special about my name is that my name is composed of my dad's name, "Cleetus" and my mom's name, "Maria" and funny thing is "Maria" also happens to be my paternal grandmother's name and maternal grandmother's name:-) ...Now tell me how many of you are lucky to have four names inclined together to form your name...In that case, i am very blessed and lucky to have this as my name.
If you also happen to have weird combos like this tell me please:-) i do love company:-)
