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Do You Live Up To Your Name?
What Does Your Name Say About You?
When I was an undergraduate, I took an extra class on the etymology (the meaning) of words. I studied the names of towns and cities, and I discovered most of them were named after the surrounding landscape or its history.
If a river ran through a city, the name reflected that in some way. If a town was in the middle of the mountains where a famous battle happened, its name did too. The same goes for a coastal town.
For some places, I had to research why the name reflected its landscape because landmasses change over time. Sometimes, houses are built on flood plains, but you’d never know there had been water there because it’s drained to someplace else.
What does your name mean, and does it reflect who you are?
How many of us can say that they are living up to their names?
I was hiking with my kids over the weekend, and we stayed in a motel overnight. When you go to new places, you notice the differences between there and home.
We met some people during the evening and one of them had a beautiful name. Her name got me thinking again about our names, and what they truly mean.
