Making A Name For Yourself

So, this may seem like a trivial thing, or something easily overlooked, but I thought I'd touch base on it to begin with. Over the last decade or so, I've been known by other people as separate names for separate reasons. In its purest form, these were just nicknames, and still mean nothing, but the point behind them is what makes it important. Now odds are you've been stuck with one of these denominations, and possibly were either insulting or you just didn't agree with the reason why. Now getting people to stop and call you something different is about as easy as moving a mountain, but both aren't impossible. Here's a few steps and a little bit of backstory as well to get you along through this pitifully foggy Tuesday.

1. Pick Your Actions Carefully
   Again, this will sounds extremely trivial, but it is important to not getting slated with an embarrassing alias through your schooling career. If people don't know you personally, as stated last week, will make their opinion of you based on your actions. Way back when to the year of 2010, I used to be a bit of a fighter. It was extremely useful in soccer as I was at one point a goalkeeper, but off the turf I had gotten into my fair share of brawls. I didn't lose, either. People said that I had acted as if I were royalty, by being proud of myself for winning these fights, and carrying myself with a bit too much of an ego. So what would you call someone who seemed to act like a king? They dubbed me Viceroy, pretty much a stand in king.
   
2. Be Social
   When people started the moniker of Viceroy, it didn't last much longer than a year. After the death of Viceroy, I had changed, mainly due to a fair amount of issues I were experiencing at school from people I thought were friends, and the usual grades, dating, and future things, as a normal teen should. I handled it poorly and dove deep into depression, and I mean deep. That's a story for another day, but it had also dubbed me as the Loner or Outcast because of the vastly different shift from being the pompous self rightous brawler who could never be wrong, to the extremely introverted, whiny figure that was the Loner. People started to stray away from me and ignore me, which hurt more that any fight I'd've been in. That was the fight to keep living, and as you can guess from my posting this, I'm not dead yet.
   
3. Be Confident With Yourself
   There is a fine line between confidence and egotistical. When I came down here to the great state of SC, I was slapped with two names, one being a more generalised one, while the other was a slightly judgemental name, but it stuck like glue either way. I'll give you a guess at that first name, odds are you could figure it out fairly quickly. If not, they called me Yankee. A name I find personally fitting. Once I spoke, it almost imediately was the first word on everyone's lips, seeing as how certain words tend to influence the usage of my accent. For years I'd've been hiding it, masking it more and more thanks to my time in choir (another story for yet another day) and had covered it enough to really blend almost anywhere. There are a few words that trigger it and bring it back into light though, and people just ate that up. One of them being Tuesday, which when I say it, comes out very much like I said Toos-dey. The second name, I had been put into a weight training class, and during my bout with depression, I turned to food, so I'm not the most well kept person, yet I was one of the strongest in my class that year, and my friends there just called me Biggs. It's not horrible, but double meanings are everywhere.
   
   
   Pretty much though, if you can follow these three points and build off of it in your own way that only you know of, you'll have an easy time avoiding a horribly scarring nickname.
   
   
   I hope that this has helped, and I hope you all have a lovely day.