NAMESAKE

 “Name sake,” I know some of you must have thought, “oh! He is going to talk about doing things for the sake of doing.” And you are right at this point, but I want to focus more on doing things for the sake of your name.

As the basic identity, we have as individuals, is our name, “Dessang” this word  comprising of letters, “d”, “e”, “s”, “s”, “a”, “n”, “g”, separates me from all of you and so does your name separates you from me and the others. But most of us don’t even care how our names are pronounced and spelled but we do care about the physical look we possess, and every now and then we are in the process, to look different and stunning. If wanting to look different and stunning  is the reason then lets care about our names more because the first thing somebody would know about you is your name. You may not remember the physique of Abraham Lincoln clearly but when someone says, “Abraham Lincoln” you will definitely know whom he is talking about.

Sometimes I feel that most of you too, like me feel that your name is important, because most of us like it when we have a different but yet a lovely name: the reason why some of us have created our own nick names. Nick names that are different from the common, so, that only you have the name, making it easier for others to know it is you- no other. On this, I know I don’t need to give examples, look at the person next to you and remember his or her nick names and you will understand what I mean. I too love when my friends call me “LUFFY” or “DD”.

If creating of unique names is to let others know it is you: to have no clashes with similar names. Then why don’t you work to make your name similarly different. “David Beckham”, who knows, how many David Beckham, are there in England but when you say David Beckham most of us will immediately think of the football star.

 In short what I mean is do something that people will attribute you to that name and others after you who possess this name of yours will be honored to share the same name. As a teacher too, we should work hard so that later people can say I want to be a teacher like…., just the way we refer to Mahatma Gandhi when we talk of a great teacher and here too your name takes the honour.

Before I end, let me quote a person whose courage is what I envy the most, Adolf Hitler, “when you are born, you are born with nothing but when you die you die with your name. So just don’t let your name be a name, make it a story.”