Who are you?

One of the most basic questions at face value, but amongst the deepest and most thought-provoking,

soul-searching prompts there is.

There are many ways to answer.

Some may reflect back on their core values, others may consider their greatest accomplishments

or dissect their personality traits.

When asked this question, you may contemplate what defines you to answer it.

But most commonly, when you're asked this, you simply respond with your name.

Our names are an incredibly important piece of our identity.

They can give us a sense of who we are and where we belong, or carry deep family and

cultural connections.

There is a reason we take offense to someone forgetting our names, mispronouncing them,

or not caring to learn them at all.

Because we are so attached to our names, those acts seem like a personal attack to us as

an individual.

We take pride in them, and sometimes when they don't align with who we are inside, we

change them to reflect our true selves.

We pass them on to future generations to honor the ones we love that came before.

We put a lot of stock into names.

Everyone you have ever met has one, and so too does almost every place you have ever

visited.

Someone had to bestow those names to those places, and while many of them are celebrations

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