la jolie chanteuse anglaise d’origine zimbabwéenne qui s’appelle Shingai Shoniwa m’a fait penser au sens des noms que nous avons. Son prénom à elle signifie ‘persévérance’.
Pour moi, un nom - prénom, surnom ou autre - fait partie intégrale de l’identité. Quelle tâche revient aux parents qui doivent nommer leur petit trésor! Il faut prendre en compte l’orthographe, le fait que le jeune Sacha pourrait être traité de fille à cause de votre choix de prénom ou encore la possibilité que l’enfant vous en veuille lorsqu’elle se voit en train de corriger tous les profs tout au long de sa scolarité.
En tout cas moi je suis contente avec mes appellations diverses et je pense que tant que votre nom a quelque chose de positif dans son sens/origine - vive ce nom et vis ce nom!
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“You know the stripes of a tiger are hard to change” sings lead singer of a band I’ve heard quite a bit of noise about in the media: The Noisettes. The song is ‘Never Forget You’ and my verdict on it: like those lyrics, love the ‘photographic’ shots in the video, I’m feeling her hairstyle and I ♥ the dress…
Her name: Shingai Shoniwa. Which gives me an excuse to delve into a topic I treasure: the meaning of names. Shingai is Shona (courtesy of her Zimbabwean-ness) for ‘soldiering on’/‘perseverance’.
Names are an integral part of one’s identity. Some people embrace theirs while others can’t wait till the day they’re allowed to legally change it. My mother’s friend got named Delilah and knowing how not-so-great-a-character the biblical namesake was, she was not impressed as she grew older. Naming babies is such a massive responsibility - you have to take into consideration the fact that your son Tracy just might get a little bit teased for having a girl’s name (even if it is a unisex name meaning ‘warlike’) or that the teacher and supply teachers may consistently mispronounce your daughter’s name.
All in all it’s fabulous when you can embrace your name, whether it was given to you by a loving relative and is right there on your ID or if you picked it up somehow as a nickname. If your name bears a positive significance, I say live up to it each day of your life!
Love Peace ‘n’ plentiful Hair Grease,
From She Who Takes After His Mother’s Blood
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