MY NAME IS..

You could be all shades of good, bad and greatness. You could still be all sides of fear, courage and weak. But what you should never be is all forms of other people's label

So many times, we are told who we are and who we should be, ever before we ever have an idea of whom we really are. So many of us will never get a chance to find ourselves by ourselves, because, we have accepted the society's definition of us. Yet, it's conflicting, it's confusing and it’s holds us back from expressing ourselves clearly. We try hard to conform into people's view of us, we struggle to wear their label, so we stay accepted or can be wanted, and find it easy to deny ourselves the one true pleasure of finding who we are and living it. We are so used to living up to other people's standard that we have come to see our true worth as substandard and so we are that guy with no name. Because we are afraid that our own view of ourselves may never be good enough. We worry that whatever we discover of ourselves might be too strong to be ignored and may make us loose the people we desperately look up to for approval, or what we discover of ourselves may push us far ahead of our time, that we worry we may incur the wrath of those we look up to. So, we forget to live, we merely survive. Actually, what we do is float through life daily hanging on to a boat when we can sail a ship. We settle for less, when we can be the best.  Telling ourselves it's the most we can achieve. Whereas, it's just a convenient truth to prevent us from discovering who we really are, helping to express ourselves in our work, deeds and actions. We focus more on being accepted and forgetting to find ourselves, define our name and take chances that can help us soar to greatness.

When people ask what our name is, we turn out answering every other name given to us by people, other than the name we should call ourselves.

 If today someone ask what your name is, pause, reflect on it, choose your answer carefully and tell them that which you would truly want to be known by, then say confidently, my name is Adaeze C Nwankwo (insert your name) and I am a poet( insert what you do).