Nicknames can be nice and in another way, they can be traumatizing, likewise, nicknames can be given to someone by someone or one can give oneself. I have some nicknames I gave myself and also some names people gave me but none of them have been traumatizing.
Personally, I feel like some nicknames are like seasons, with time they fade away while some stick. I have been given quite a lot of names because of a scenario but they all quickly fade, let's say, after a class or a year or a holiday. They are names I have given myself too, they are Terry-G, SmileGirl, Baby, and Liz (which is still the short form of my name)
Terry-G didn’t last long, and it was only people that were close to me that called me that. SmileGirl was just what I gave myself because it felt nice and simple, again it didn’t quite last, and it wasn’t quite known. Baby, this is still my last and kinda current nickname for people who know me before I decided to stick with Liz.
How I came about Baby was quite funny or maybe not, I don’t know if you have watched this movie “Baby Driver”, this movie was about a boy called Baby, he was a driver some heist guys.. anyways, my point is the guy named was Baby and I just fell in love with it because it was quite unique.
After a while, I changed all my usernames to Baby and soon people started calling me Baby, at first it was quite funny to most people but as time passed they all got used to it. Even when I graduated from my school and went for a lesson at another school, people still get to know me as a baby I wrote it as my name in my book
I love being called baby, I love the name. I have even gotten too stuck to the name that even if you are trying to be romantic with me by calling me “baby”, I don’t see the romance, I just see my name. And yes, it is not like I behave like a baby, It is just what I chose.
I stop using Baby as my name for the past few years although people who know me have Baby still calls me by that. I changed to Liz because it looks more okay and mature, well, Liz is not really a nickname, I guess, it is still my name in another form.
I stop using Baby because the word holds quite a meaning. Still can’t forget when one of my friends called me baby in front of his girlfriend, it was hilarious, she thought otherwise. Generally, when people call me baby, other people get the wrong ideas before realizing that it is just my nickname.
As much as I love Liz, I am still looking for a nice nickname that would be peculiar to me. Liz is very common, if I am to use it in some cases socially, they tell me, “The username is already taken”. I love to have a name relating to my biological name or my personality and would be less common.
𝑻𝒉𝒂𝒏𝒌𝒔 𝒇𝒐𝒓 𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒅𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒕𝒊𝒍𝒍 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒆𝒏𝒅…
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𝚜𝚎𝚎 𝚢𝚊𝚊.