It appears that I've been nominated in the Steemit Name Challenge by @yabapmatt. The challenge is very simple:
Tell us in a post how you chose the current Steemit username you have. The story behind it.
Well, it's gonna be a relatively short story.
It's just my real name. I know that for an English native speaker my name sounds like it was researched to sound in an exotic, Harry Potter-ish way, with hints of dragons and witches, but it's not.
My real name is Dragos Roua. The last letter of Dragos is actually a "ș", which is pronounced "sh", and the last letter of Roua is actually "ă", which is pronounced like the vowel in "the".
I was born Romanian, but I consider myself a citizen of the world.
And that's pretty much it.
But there is a little bit of a story behind my decision to use my real name and not my usual avatar name, which is, believe it or not, edragonu.
When I first started to blog, more than 10 years ago, I didn't want to use my real name so I chose something "spectacular". Or so I thought. Never mind. Fact is I started to blog on a domain called edragonu.com, and for a few years my blog was called Edragonu. Weird, I know.
Around 5-6 years ago I decided it's too much of a hassle to keep identifying with an artificial name, and switched to my real name. It's way, way simpler. And because my name is quite rare, even in Romania, it's easier to get identified with. To my knowledge, I'm the only person named Dragos Roua at this moment. There might have been a few other social media characters with this name, but I doubt they're actually named Dragos Roua.
So, that's it.
I'm nominating the next 5 people to this challenge:
Steem on!
I'm a serial entrepreneur, blogger and ultrarunner. You can find me mainly on my blog at Dragos Roua where I write about productivity, business, relationships and running. Here on Steemit you may stay updated by following me @dragosroua.
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