1. You don’t want to be ‘the other’. When there are two of you with the same name – be it Eleanor or Tegan or Dwayne – everybody else in the world who happens to know the both of you will certainly find a way to differentiate between you and the other you. The problem is if you end up being ‘the other you’. Allow me to illustrate with a table.
| WINNER | LOSER |
| Funny You | The Other You |
| Smart You | The Other You |
| Poet You | The Other You |
| Jewish You | The Other You |
| Perfect You
| The Other You |
| Pretty You | The Other You |
| Lovely You | The Other You |
DO YOU UNDERSTAND WHY I HEADED EACH COLUMN THE WAY I DID?
There are no loopholes or exceptions. If you are The Other You you have lost. You are a loser. Because even if your opponent is known as ‘Fat You’ or ‘Bogan You’ or ‘Smelly You’, you will still despair over why there isn’t anything remarkable enough about you to define you in your own right. You will wonder endlessly whether you only exist in relation to the non-other you. If they die, vanish to another land where there are no more yous, will you be gone too?
So I was talking to Tegan the other day.
Cool Tegan?
Nah. The Other Tegan.
Oh.
Really, there’s a substantial argument why children may be called Boat or Frame or Iron. And it’s not because their parents are morons.
6 comments:
OMG Other Tegan, this post is most strange. I now christen you Wierd Tegan. You are now a winner.
It's very true. You never want to be 'the other'. I'm lucky that not many people my age are called Harry, but I do often get called the 'other Nuss', you being the original.
Interesting conclusion Tugs. In my childhood, and more particularly in my adolescent years, I was not very impressed with neither my firstname nor my surname, because for me, at least at the time, both were uncommom, if not unusual.
But as the years rolled on, the more appreciative I became of this very fact.
PS
Oops....A double negative.
Who have you been hanging around with, Dad? Want to know where you learnt 'OMG'??
You also spelt 'weird' incorrectly. Second oops.
What about if you have the same name as someone's pet?
eg.1 Broden. The first thing he said to me was "My dog's name is 'Leena'". He didn't even have to say what we were all thinking which was that 'Leena' was a female dog and therefore a bitch.
eg.2 "Jeffery jumped on the table and ate my dinner." I imagine my cat while you imagine your brother.
What if you have the same name as a brand of women's sanitary item?
ie. 'Freya'
I don't think there is any winning about having different names. I think the best names don't rhyme with things like 'weener'.
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