“I want my name to mean me.” -Mark Haddon 

Sometimes when I hear someone say my name, I think to myself: my god, that doesn’t sound like it belongs to me. It doesn’t sound like the kind of name I’d give myself. If repeated, Brittany sounds so foreign that I can actually alienate myself from the three syllables that tap at my palate. 

The meaning of Brittany means from Britain. The etymology of the name comes from the region in France where English settlers fled to after the anglo-saxon invasion in England. But what does that have to do with me? What does that meaning say about me?

I heard once names are prophetical, that they say a lot about where you are going in life. I don’t know if it’s true, but what I do know is that I want to add meaning to the name. I want someone one day to think about Brittany, and have the name be smeared with remnants of me. 

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