All Nonfiction
- Bullying
- Books
- Academic
- Author Interviews
- Celebrity interviews
- College Articles
- College Essays
- Educator of the Year
- Heroes
- Interviews
- Memoir
- Personal Experience
- Sports
- Travel & Culture
All Opinions
- Bullying
- Current Events / Politics
- Discrimination
- Drugs / Alcohol / Smoking
- Entertainment / Celebrities
- Environment
- Love / Relationships
- Movies / Music / TV
- Pop Culture / Trends
- School / College
- Social Issues / Civics
- Spirituality / Religion
- Sports / Hobbies
All Hot Topics
- Bullying
- Community Service
- Environment
- Health
- Letters to the Editor
- Pride & Prejudice
- What Matters
- Back
Summer Guide
- Program Links
- Program Reviews
- Back
College Guide
- College Links
- College Reviews
- College Essays
- College Articles
- Back
naming this poem would be entirely counteractive
Take your name and change it
just a bit,
don't forget it.
Would anyone notice?
Would anyone see?
Could anyone care to believe
that you're not who you've been?
You've turned in your identity
and now you're just an entity
lost in a sea of personalities
without a label to be found.
Yeah, i'm down
because i've found
that there's four hundred other people
who claim the same name.
Yeah, i'm vain,
but is it our names
that keep us all sane?
Similar Articles
JOIN THE DISCUSSION
This article has 0 comments.
What do you do when you first see something new? You stick a name to it. & now that the thing has a name, you have become familiar with it and you feel like you know it.
Okay, so you run into this thing, and you do not know what it is. So you name it: tree. Now, you can say, "I know that thing. That thing is tree. Oh, and that thing over there is rock, and this is grass." & in your mind, you think you know the thing, simply because you know it's name.
But is this all just a lazy way to avoid going deeper? If we were not able to name the thing, the only way we could get to know it is by being around it, studying it, and taking time to appreciate it. But using a name provides an easy cop out from the real dedication and work involved in getting to know it.
Names aren't real. They are just a lame way to force our minds to believe that we know someone.
But we don't.