pressure with your name?
Monday, December 1, 2008 @ 4:13 PM
last monday, a new facil came in to relief. as usual, she questioned about my name. and from there, she asked me a question : " do you face pressure living up to your name?"
so i smiled at her at said not really lah. anyway, that question came up to me just now.
so my mind searched the past history of what i have went through since young. i remembered in primary school, teachers passed remarks like "eh your name call smarties you really smart anot?", "i thought you supposed to be very smart, why this easy question you also cannot solve?".
haha, sadly, only those which are more negative are stuck in my head.
actually in primary school, it was more challenging for me to "live up" to my name. i almost faces pressure everyday in school whenever i cannot accomplish something or cant answer certain question, my own name will be used against me.
i dont know maybe that is the reverse psychology tactic that my teachers uses to push me. but i guess it had certain effect on me though.
of course, i'm very satisfied with my own name. esp whenever new people asked me how did my name came about, and they would be so interested, and some maybe fascinated about my name. but i'm glad that it could stir up this curiosity, and this is one good way for people to be interested to know me, and it actually break the barrier of the "icebreaking" part you see
; )
