Sophie from Her Library Adventures started the week with a very simple question: what’s in a name. I like this questions and all its possible answers, because a name is no much more than just a word.
As simple as it may sound at first, finding a name (for a baby, a blog, a project, a coffee shop, a company) is a huge responsibility. Sometimes it feels like the name you choose will impact the destiny of the named subject forever. I remember one time, during a university course on personal sociology, the teacher said a little story about names. He said that it’s only when one is comfortable with himself/herself that he/she is also comfortable with his/her name. Probably there’s a little truth in there even said the other way around. The fact is that I disliked my name for a long time. Anca seemed to short and colorless and spark-less. It was around my 20′s that I finally got comfortable with my name and I think it coincided with me starting to shed some light on my life, also.
Enough with the chit chat already. Here is the story of happyhangaround.
I’m not very creative at naming things. Or, better yet, I kind of let things name themselves, after a little piece of personal history taking place. This blog went through various phases, beginning with things that I like (like staying at home whet it rains – hence drizzly afternoon, which was also bought as a domain name, then I changed my mind), things that I can/want to do, or funny little word games in the realm of handmade.
But the plans were shuttered and the final decision on the name, the domain buying, and setting all accounts with this name (twitter, Etsy, others…) happened in less than an hour. I was listening to Travis then…
Happy hang around is a Travis song, even if the message is less happy than the title… (I love Travis, I love their songs.) And happy hang around is what I am doing while taking care of this blog. Hanging around people I like, even if I don’t know them in person. And happy is how I expect to be while doing this. Because I hope to find peace in doing things with my hands and sharing the story with people like me.
Hope you liked my story. Thanks, Sophie, for bringing the subject up.