Its amazing how sensitive people are about the way they are called. Your parents gave you a name, some of us take that very seriously insisting that everyone should call us exactly the way our parents did. Some others like to change it completely and call ourselves by a nick name or a short name or an abbreviated name or a characteristic name re-given to us by our mates, friends or colleagues - Chatur, Silencer, VD, DJ, Rush.
But the biggest issue is the pronunciation of your name...it varies from different countries to different accents to different societies. I have usually been nonchalant about the way my name is often said - anything that starts from R or sometimes even K, U, T... Krishina, Kristine, Usina, Trusina, Reesheena...as long as they get about 3 out of 7 alphabets right i forgive and forget. I attribute all flaws to my very unusual and meaningless name which people after mispronouncing it a few times find very lovely. It is like an artwork, very abstract is very interesting. Or maybe they are making up for saying it wrong innumerable times.
What makes me really laugh is when my daughter Aaliyah who is now 5 and bilingual tells me that she is Aaliyah in English and a very melodious Aleeeya in Swedish. Well, Jacob is Yakub and Jennifer is Yennifer and Nemo is Neamo and Peter is Patter so why not. It is hard to find a name that cannot be changed with such globalisation.
