My name is Sol. Simple, short, yet different. My name means Sun in Spanish, it has no meaning behind it like freedom, peace, love, or joy. It is just an exact translation. Yet to me it describes who and what I’d like to be. Strong, independent, important, likable, happy, fun and caring, really quite like the Sun itself in a way. I haven’t become this personality yet but I hope to mold into it.
My name is unusual out of Argentina it is much more “exotic.” But back home I am just another Sol walking on the streets, but there is one small difference, in Argentina Sol is a nickname for Mariasol or Soledad, but my name is just those three letters. I am so glad that my parents did not name me any of those horrible names because Mariasol is just ugly, typical, I hear it all the time like a number one hit record that is on the radio all the time, and Soledad means loneliness, it gives me the feeling of cold dark isolation, and who would ever want that.
If I had to describe my name I would say that my name is a warm comforting yellow orangish oozing gold. Or the sight you see and feel in the mountains on a warm summer day with the breeze playing with your hair. Even though I keep writing about all the wonderful things there are about my name, there are downsides.
My name is extremely short and straight forward. So you’d think that learning it would be extremely easy but for some reason when I was younger I would always write it backwards. I had a theory that I did this to make it look more interesting when I was younger. Perhaps it was because I was jealous of my sister Ileana, because while I had only three letters in my name she had six! So I would always complain about how “unfair” it was.
One last thing that still disappoints me today is when people pronounce my name incorrectly. I know some people really do try hard to say my name but somehow it never comes out right. When they try to say it and sounds so loud, abrupt and uncomfortable, maybe even a bit sharp. Sometimes it makes me jump in my chair when I am called on. You just cannot say it without having a Spanish tongue. But when you do it sounds so much more beautiful, a bit like the shortest song in the world. It is different when someone pronounces it properly, it transforms into a whole new name. My real name.
My name is extremely short and straight forward. So you’d think that learning it would be extremely easy but for some reason when I was younger I would always write it backwards. I had a theory that I did this to make it look more interesting when I was younger. Perhaps it was because I was jealous of my sister Ileana, because while I had only three letters in my name she had six! So I would always complain about how “unfair” it was.
All in all I think my name suits me like no other. It is the perfect name for me, a glove that fits as well as a second skin, because it is my name, Sol.
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