What is your middle name? Does it carry any special meaning/significance?
There’s a few overlapping meanings/significance to William.
First: my great-grandfather’s name was William, and my parents wanted to name me after him. Though they didn’t want it shortened to something like Willy or Bill, so they made it my middle name instead.
Second: using the W. as my middle initial when introducing myself marks a change in my personality as I grew up. I lost a bit of myself along the way. I lost my self-confidence. I became self-aware: “how pretentious to introduce yourself as ‘Noah W. Sweet.’ Who do you think you are? Samuel L. Jackson, motherfucker?” And with that self-destructive self-reflection, I lost my middle name.
Third: after rediscovering myself, I REMembered the importance & significance “William” is to being Whö I Am really. Will, I Am – William is Willpower becoming self-actualized. When I REMembered my middle name, I found the lost strength taken from Me when William realized I didn’t deserve his name’s Will when all I ever did with it was trip, fall, and spill. Never would I feel filled ’til honing my own first name’s skill.
And that’s the abridged story of my transient name playing a role greater than just my Life’s game.
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