It was another one of those beautiful morning conversations....
R: "Why did you name me Raghav?", was the question today, as he sat with a lost look in his eyes, inside his most favourite place in the world - the tub! :)
Me: "I don't know....it just felt right....that was the name I wanted for you if you were a boy."
R: "But why did you choose that name? Why didn't you choose something else?"
Me: "I just felt that it was perfect for you, even before you were born...I just knew it inside."
"And then, after you were born, appa's parents i.e. your patti and thatha wanted to follow the custom of naming their grandson or grand-daughter after the grandfather or grandmother and wanted a naming ceremony. I was thinking about it and realised that Raghav was perfect because it had a part of both your thathas' names! It all worked out so beautifully."
R: Why do they have a naming ceremony?
Me: I don't know. I will have to find out. No one was able to answer when I asked them then.
R: I think choosing a name should be done like voting. Whichever name gets the maximum votes should be chosen.
Me: But I don't think I would have been happy if by voting, another name had come up for you. I really liked the name 'Raghav' and wanted that for you. I would perhaps be the one calling your name the most, and if it was not something that I was happy with, I would have been sad all the time. So I don't think voting is a good idea.
R: Yeah....I also don't think I would have liked any other name. I actually like my name. I think it is perfect for me!
Me: Why? Why do you feel that it is perfect for you?
R: Because I feel I am like that.....the way I act....80% of the time I am happy....only 20% of the time I am sad....so I feel that it is perfect for me. It makes me happy. I like my name. It is also not very common no?
:)
A little later, when I was in the balcony sorting out the compost, he came up to me quietly from the back to say this:
"I think you are the perfect amma for me.....even if you don't act like me or like the things I do."
What a beautiful gift to receive to start the day! :)
What's in a name anyway?
Everything is perfect as it is....just as it should be.
P.S. - After he was born and his grandparents were figuring out his birth star (nakshatram) according to the Tamil calendar, I came to know that he shared the same birth star as Rama, and was born at around noon just like Rama....and the name that I had chosen for him was another name for Rama!
(I didn't believe in astrology then nor mythology and related with them as figments of imagination and as just another story)
But speak of coincidences and synchronicity! :)
R: "Why did you name me Raghav?", was the question today, as he sat with a lost look in his eyes, inside his most favourite place in the world - the tub! :)
Me: "I don't know....it just felt right....that was the name I wanted for you if you were a boy."
R: "But why did you choose that name? Why didn't you choose something else?"
Me: "I just felt that it was perfect for you, even before you were born...I just knew it inside."
"And then, after you were born, appa's parents i.e. your patti and thatha wanted to follow the custom of naming their grandson or grand-daughter after the grandfather or grandmother and wanted a naming ceremony. I was thinking about it and realised that Raghav was perfect because it had a part of both your thathas' names! It all worked out so beautifully."
R: Why do they have a naming ceremony?
Me: I don't know. I will have to find out. No one was able to answer when I asked them then.
R: I think choosing a name should be done like voting. Whichever name gets the maximum votes should be chosen.
Me: But I don't think I would have been happy if by voting, another name had come up for you. I really liked the name 'Raghav' and wanted that for you. I would perhaps be the one calling your name the most, and if it was not something that I was happy with, I would have been sad all the time. So I don't think voting is a good idea.
R: Yeah....I also don't think I would have liked any other name. I actually like my name. I think it is perfect for me!
Me: Why? Why do you feel that it is perfect for you?
R: Because I feel I am like that.....the way I act....80% of the time I am happy....only 20% of the time I am sad....so I feel that it is perfect for me. It makes me happy. I like my name. It is also not very common no?
:)
A little later, when I was in the balcony sorting out the compost, he came up to me quietly from the back to say this:
"I think you are the perfect amma for me.....even if you don't act like me or like the things I do."
What a beautiful gift to receive to start the day! :)
What's in a name anyway?
Everything is perfect as it is....just as it should be.
~
P.S. - After he was born and his grandparents were figuring out his birth star (nakshatram) according to the Tamil calendar, I came to know that he shared the same birth star as Rama, and was born at around noon just like Rama....and the name that I had chosen for him was another name for Rama!
(I didn't believe in astrology then nor mythology and related with them as figments of imagination and as just another story)
But speak of coincidences and synchronicity! :)
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