Names Don't Matter

Hey Nameless,

I'm sorry that had to be your name, but I was running out of patience.

Blogger, in its infinite wisdom, decided that the simplest way, would be to partition the process of setting you up, in to three steps. It declared that the first one would be to choose a name for you. Then would follow, the steps where I get to choose your template and the other good stuff. Now, I'm not sure if you've heard of Shivaji, but his tactic in his battles with the Mughal Empire was to capture all the smaller forts before training his guns (figuratively speaking of course) on the more difficult ones. Since I like to do the same thing, this whole linear process irritated me no less.

Getting a good name for you was a really painful exercise. Naming things is not exactly my strong-point. There will be a day (I sincerely hope not!!) when I would have to name my kid, I shudder at the very prospect. Amma would ask "So what do you have in mind?" I'd reply, "Err ... I think Frodo would be a nice name? how about Aragorn? Nice royal name it is.". .. *slap* turn the other cheek ..*slap*

My friends can come up with names at the drop of a hat. If the names they give for their computers is any indication. N calls his computer "Cray" - this is a beast that blazes forward at 300 MHz, and fantastically huge memory capacity of 128 MB. C is a left-hander and thinks the Sermon on the Mount should have added "Blessed are the left-handers, for they shall gain world-domination". Naturally his laptop is called Southpaw. My friend M one day declared "A rose by any other name, smells just as sweet", so I started calling her Rosie. Of course she didn't like it one bit.

Its not that I didn't try, but you would cringe if you saw the list of names I came up with - Muddled Memories, Four-Eyes Takes on the World, Life through the Laughing Gas. These were the best of the bunch, so you can imagine how bad the others were. In case you don't believe me, how does the Spectrum of a Smile sound. Satisfied? Good.

These names suck for another reason. I'd like to think of you as a person sometimes. Trust us homo-sapiens to humanize and put our characteristics on all the objects around us, but yeah that's one of our endearing traits too. So think about it, you Nameless, can be anyone you want to be. On the days you feel like singing, you can be Maria Von Trapp and when you are clumsy you are Po the Kung-fu Panda. I can imagine you being Genelia D'Souza one day and Shah Rukh Khan another day. Ahem... No. SRK is not allowed. Will Smith? Yeah, now you're talking. When you're feeling perky you'd be the "Swashbuckling Samurai" and the days you feeling down in the dumps, you could be "Moaning Myrtle". Yes, you're the Shape-Shifting Glob.

Just so you know, the inspiration for Nameless came from Jet-Li's character in "Hero". He was an angry young warrior who wanted to see the end of the Qin dynasty that had subjugated all the other chinese clans and unified the Middle Kingdom. Well, things didn't really work out for him (Jet Li) , but the movie is just too good. I'm sure you're not going to be as radical as he was but he had quite a bit of fire in him, and that will do you no harm.

So here's a toast to you Nameless. Maybe we should have met before, but life is too short for regrets

cheers,

day-dreamer