January 17, 2004
what is the use of nicknames?
if we all have a name, why cause confusion by creating multiple names for the same person, in most cases which are obscure and meaningless to all but one person? i have come to the unlikely conclusion that it's to create more chaos in our world order, as we were talking about in philosophy on thursday. maybe it's the shortened version of a name. or maybe it's that the more obscure the nickname, the higher your personal status with the person. meaning if you have a more obscure nickname for a certain person than the next person you know this certain person more deeply. think about this one. i think it's true, which is comical and amusing.
for example, i have a friend at school whose name is richard-paul. those who call him richard we write off as mere aqaintances. in our "inner circle" we call him dickie.
i have multiple nicknames, none of which i particularly hate except for "mui" or "shorty". a few others are "seela", "angelle", "cookie", "may", "shla", "sheils" and "shiza". it confuses me as to how i accumulated so many just in the past 2 years. pop quiz: i've gotta learn to answer to them all -.-
