A word unspoken—
Not lost, but waiting,
Like a letter never sent.
The Name That Almost Was
Some names are given. Others are inherited. And some linger in the silence between generations, waiting for someone to claim them.
I was meant to have another name. A name whispered in late-night conversations, debated behind closed doors. A name that once belonged to someone who walked away from everything they knew, someone who promised to return and never did. A name laced with longing, with weight, with stories only half-told.
But my parents chose otherwise.
“Let them write their own story,” they said.
And so, they left the space empty. A quiet rebellion, or maybe an unspoken hope—that I would not be bound to the ghosts of the past.
The Names We Carry, The Names We Choose
Names are more than sounds. They are echoes, inheritances, artifacts of lives that came before us.
Some people wear their names like armor, shielding themselves in the history they carry. Others treat theirs like a burden, a heavy thing to be dragged behind them. Some rewrite their names entirely, carving out a new existence letter by letter.
And then there are those of us who live in the space in between.
Between the weight of history and the pull of reinvention. Between expectation and autonomy. Between who we were meant to be and who we are still becoming.
I never quite fit into the mold of my family’s past, nor did I fully detach from it. My life has been spent balancing on that line—too aware of where I came from to ignore it, too restless to let it define me.
The name I almost had? It is a story I was never meant to tell. But that does not mean I do not feel its presence, lingering in the quiet moments, reminding me that history is both a shadow and a light.
Wabi-Sabi and the Beauty of the Unnamed
Wabi-sabi teaches that absence is not emptiness—it is possibility.
A door without a lock is an invitation.
A page left blank is a story waiting to be told.
A name left unspoken is not missing—it is waiting to be chosen.
Maybe I was never meant to inherit a name.
Maybe I was meant to create one for myself.
Lessons From a Name That Was Never Given
- You are not the weight of what came before.
- Some spaces are left empty so you can fill them.
- A name does not define you. You define it.
- The past is not a script—it is a starting point.
- Your story is still being written. Choose the words wisely.
The Name I Carry, the One I Become
I do not have a middle name.
But I have every word I’ve ever spoken.
Every path I have chosen. Every piece of myself I have built.
And maybe, just maybe, that is enough.
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