Hi, My Name Is...*

So, there was another direction I was gonna go with this, but I decided to go a different route this time. So yeah, sorry if I led you astray with the Instagram post...

This might be a cool one. Sounds like a good idea in my head, so we'll find out if you guys think that it meets your criteria. So yeah.

This one is about names. Not just names though. I guess... I don't know, you'll get it here in a second.

So, I was tryna come up with something to write about, and I thought about my dog, Simone, and I thought about what name she has for all of us in her own head. Didn't make a whole lot of sense at first, but hey, it's late at night, it's been a long day, etc...

So, that led me to think about names in general, and how you will never be name-less. Like yeah, my name might be Dominic, but even if it WASN'T that, I would still have a name. Each person I met would have a different name for me.

Which, in case any of you are fans, there's a Game of Thrones** connection there. Not that I watch it, but I overheard it in a friends conversation. Arya Stark, after she joined the one group and started referring to herself as "A girl", that way she would lose her identity or whatever, that whole concept doesn't make all that much sense to me. She'd be like: "A girl is tired, and she is going to lie down." Coolio. I'm not stopping you from talking like that, or trying to accomplish whatever she did, I'm just saying that you're basically just talking in third person... Don't @ me.

Anyways, off of that tangent. A name is just how somebody sees you. Eventually there were too many people to be able to distinguish by description, so they were like, "Hey, you're John now. You can be Christopher, and the girl in the corner can be Sally." Before that, they were just the going by description.

Might make more sense here in a second, sorry...

So, think about way back in the beginning of time. I'm a Creationist, so I'll be going from the creation point of view. Adam and Eve just chilling there in the garden of Eden, next to their Pet Cheetah. You think they had names for each other? There were only the two of them, so they could just assume that whenever the other was talking, it was to them... Even after they had their first son, it'd be pretty easy to distinguish.

On to the flip-side of this view point. Think of how many names each of us have now. First, middle, and last names, much less the people who have multiple middle names, or people who hyphenate when they get married. You're up to five it that description fits you. Going back to the title and picture for this post: Eminem. That's a name of his. Marshall Bruce Mathers. Another one. Slim Shady. Another one. So on and so forth.

My two points are, at one point, nobody had a name. It may have been way too long ago to document or prove, but it makes sense to me. And the other is that now, everybody has a lot of names, in order to be able to tell them apart from the other 7+ billion people on this planet.

If it doesn't make sense to you still, I'm sorry. I tried my best.

OOOHHH WAIT. ANOTHER EXAMPLE:

Esteban Julió Ricardo Montoya de la Rosa Ramírez. From the Suite Life. You're welcome.

To finish this off, here's a fun fact. This guy has the longest name in the world:

Adolph Blaine Charles David Earl Frederick Gerald Hubert Irvin John Kenneth Lloyd Martin Nero Oliver Paul Quincy Randolph Sherman Thomas Uncas Victor William Xerxes Yancy Zeus Wolfe­schlegel­stein­hausen­berger­dorff­welche­vor­altern­waren­gewissen­haft­schafers­wessen­schafe­waren­wohl­gepflege­und­sorg­faltig­keit­be­schutzen­vor­an­greifen­durch­ihr­raub­gierig­feinde­welche­vor­altern­zwolf­hundert­tausend­jah­res­voran­die­er­scheinen­von­der­erste­erde­mensch­der­raum­schiff­genacht­mit­tung­stein­und­sieben­iridium­elek­trisch­motors­ge­brauch­licht­als­sein­ur­sprung­von­kraft­ge­start­sein­lange­fahrt­hin­zwischen­stern­artig­raum­auf­der­suchen­nach­bar­schaft­der­stern­welche­ge­habt­be­wohn­bar­planeten­kreise­drehen­sich­und­wo­hin­der­neue­rasse­von­ver­stand­ig­mensch­lich­keit­konnte­fort­pflanzen­und­sicher­freuen­an­lebens­lang­lich­freude­und­ru­he­mit­nicht­ein­furcht­vor­an­greifen­vor­anderer­intelligent­ge­schopfs­von­hin­zwischen­stern­art­ig­raum, Senior.

I'm assuming the last name is German or something... That fact is, in fact, backed up by history, though there have been common misspellings, and interpretative issues. But yeah, it's legit. There's your fun fact of the day.

That's all I've got. I hope you enjoyed this whole post.

If you didn't, I can't really change that now, but I promise the next one will be better.

If you did enjoy, you're one of my new favorite humans. Thank you for existing in general.

I'll see you all again in a little bit.

And seriously, if you don't like something, or if you did, definitely let me know, so I can work with that in the future. I do this for you guys.

-Dominic Romeo

12:51 PM 5/3/2019

*Disclaimer: Us here at Behind My Face, Above My Throat are aware of the fact that this is Eminem. We are aware of the content of this song, and while we might not agree with all of said content, the title is a match for the topic of this post. And thus, here we are.

**Disclaimer: Us here at Behind My Face, Above My Throat are aware of the fact that this is Game of Thrones. We are aware of the content of this show, and while we might not agree with all of said content, it is a match for the topic of this post. And thus, here we are.