Names, they are like eyes.

[kajarainbow]

I suddenly realized that both "Sarah" and "Wolfie", as well as variations and combinations of both, are merely alias. This leaves me in the position of not having a 'true' name. Funny thing is, I don't care about not having one. It's a peculiar freedom.

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[ocean-state.livejournal.com]

You know, I don't have a "true" name either, and sometimes I wish that I did. Preferably one revealed to me in a dramatic and unambiguous fashion. :) (Suddenly the Dalai Lama leaves the podium and grabs my shoulder! "Young man," he says with twinkling eyes, "A vision has told me your true name!")

I joked around on the subject of "true names" when I began my LiveJournaling hobby, and elynne quipped that my true name had better not be something like Ravenwyng Mystfyre Winterchyld. But really I'm looking for a more, ahem, normal-sounding substitute for my given first name, which I'm not crazy about. Lately I've been thinking of myself as "David," and I did a double-take to think that "David Williams" is possibly a catalog full of Celtic nonsense and silver rings. (That's David Morgan, whew! Wrong Welsh surname...)

I'm still open to the fantasy with the Dalai Lama, etc., :) but for now I've decided that whatever name I cook up is probably not going to be an improvement on my given name, and it's not going to be my true name either. I suppose we all need mystery in our lives.

[asrinmoore.livejournal.com]

what's mopre true, the name I've lived with for all my live, or the name I gave something I made up, and ended up taking as an aspect of self? am I stephen, or clockwork? and is my last name Moore, despite it not being so on a birth certificate?