I just had an out of body experience.
Really! I did. I typed my name and suddenly became overwhelmed while looking at it. It looked so foreign to me. It was like I was seeing it for the first time. I thought, is this me? Is this what other people see when they look at my name? This name is sort of short and cute and bouncy. It doesn't even seem like my name. Have I been called this my entire life? Is my person somehow wrapped up in this 5 letter word?
For a few minutes I felt completely separate from my name. It was like it was not a part of me at all, and I was only a casual observer thinking about the look, feel, and sound of the name Becky. It's hard to describe exactly what was going on in my mind.
I've had this feeling with other words before. Sometimes if I use a word too many times, too quickly, it starts to look and sound strange. But that had never happened with my own name.
Has this ever happened to you?
3 comments:
I totally get what you are saying here Becky.....
Oh, yeah. That has happened to me. With other words and with my name...weird, isn't it?
This happens to me every once in awhile. Like Rachel, it also happens to me with other words. I will look at a word and think I've never seen it before. Weird.
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