Names

Names are a crazy thing to think about, where they came from, what they mean, why they're important? Some people tend to think names can make or break you, but I think the opposite, you make your name unique to you. Many times there will be a celebrity or something famous with your name that people will associate you with. This is very true for my name, Carrie. Usually when people hear my name they think straight to the movie Carrie. For those who don't know the movie Carrie is about a troubled teenager, with telekinesis, who gets pushed past her limit and ends up killing multiple people at her prom. So, as you can tell not the best thing to have people associate you with, but as people get to know me they realize (hopefully) that I'm a sweet girl who isn't going to kill people.  Luckily, that has nothing to do with what my name means to me. To me, it's a family name passed down from my moms great grandmother, which means a lot to me because she was someone my mother admired a lot, and I aspire to have someone look up to me like that someday.

Throughout my last name, my family name, has been extremely unique, there's only 7 of us in Raleigh. Up until this point I have never really thought about how it makes me an individual or a part of a whole. Individually I don't think it really changes who I am, at least not for me. Although it has affected me a few times relating to school. All through elementary and middle school I followed in my sister's footsteps. Considering how uncommon my last name is if I ever had a teacher who had taught one of my sister's I was always compared to them. I hated it because I knew I was nothing like either of them, but because this was their first impression of me I had to try that much harder to prove that I was different.