Growing Up As Neelabh

The first name that was given to me was Harshwardhan. This name was give  to me by my grandfather. But later on other relatives started suggesting some other easy names for me. Well, that included some real nice names like Mukesh, Jitender, Ravi etc. Finally they organised a round table conference and my grandfather’s only brother in law, who is very close to my grandfather suggested this name. Neelabh. All my family members liked it a lot.

There were many reasonse for liking this name. First and the foremost was the it was quite an unique name. I don’t understand why someone loves to chose unique names for their babies. And if they want their child’s names to be unique, what could be more unique to R1D1 or say Catzuphasy? Well, lets return to my naming conference. They passed the name Neelabh. Now, one thing missed in this all melee was that they never asked me if I like my name or not.

When I first went to school, on the very first day my class teacher asked me what does my name mean? I was totally clueless. I asked my grandmother that what does it mean.

Neelabh word is made of two words. Neel and abha. Its an adjective. Anything which emits blue light or has a tinge of it is called Neelabh. And its other name for lord Shiva and our good old sky.

Then started the real problem. Very seldom I was called Neelabh. Usually my peers used to call me Neelam, Neelap, Milap and such stupid variations of the real name. But it hardly mattered to me as I was deeply in love with my name. So whenever, mispronounced or misspelled my name, I would correct them without bothering for too much.

Why is it so that most of my posts ended disruptly and are about me. Am I self obsessed?