What's in a name?

It's Monday! Another week in this circumstance we find ourselves in.

Fun fact: did you know that "Corona" means "Crown"? (Eg: "The Coronation of the king is scheduled to hold tomorrow.")
The person/ people who named the virus looked at it and thought, "This thing is shaped like a crown. Let's call it the crown virus."
Royal families everywhere probably revolted. "We refuse to be associated with sickness!" And so the scientists looked for a different word that meant the same thing.

What if the scientists had looked at it and thought it looked like the wheel of a ship instead? Or like the cork of a coke bottle? Or like a star?
Would it have been called Wheelievirus? Or Corkyvirus? Or Solarvirus?
More importantly, would that have changed its devastating impact on the world?

What's in a name?
Does it matter what you call a thing, if the thing is the same, regardless?
My name is Omotayo, but if you call me Nkechi, would it make me less myself? And if you called me nothing, or didn't know my name, would it mean that I didn't exist?

If you're chosen, favoured, talented and unique, but someone else calls you something else, does it mean you're not all those things?
And if someone else looks at your life, and decides that they don't think it's beautiful, does that give them the right to call it ashes?
And even if they do, would it take away from its beauty?
And even if they ignored you, as if you didn't matter, would it mean you don't?

What do YOU call yourself, your life, your experiences?
What do YOU call this season we're in?
What do YOU call your future, even though you haven't "met" it, yet?

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