Prompt: New name. Let’s meet again, for the first time. If you could introduce yourself to strangers by another name for just one day, what would it be and why?
from december 23rd
(Okay—disclaimer: I was out of town for the past week, and the only internet access I had was my phone. So I’m WAY behind on my reverb10 prompts, but my plan is to still finish.)
New name? You know, it took me a long time to get used to the name Hannah. I used to think it was a dingy name, used for old maids or overweight middle-aged women. I wanted to be a Jennifer, a Melissa, or a Stacey. I thought my name was too serious, and I wanted to be more flighty, more fun, more light. But then a funny thing happened as a grew up—I grew to love my name. I loved its uniqueness and the fact that hardly anyone I knew was named Hannah. I loved that it was a palindrome and was spelled the same backwards and forwards.
Then a funny thing happened: people started named THEIR children Hannah. Now there’s tons of Hannah’s (15 and younger mainly), there’s Hannah Montana, and it feels like a fun, light, flighty name. But I was there first!
I don’t need another name. That’s what I’m trying to say 