8.10.08

What's Your Name?

"Some names should not be used after someone special has worn them to the last letter. Special people tend to somehow leave their scent, their history and their painful absence in their name in a way that, after they're gone, pronouncing those words to a stranger sounds absurdly strange. Illegal. Anyone else would feel wrong in that name, they just wouldn't fit. It would be like changing a colors' name. That's why some names are to be kept secret; because they carry so many memories. They are heavy, loaded with feelings in such a terrible way that they should be buried with the faces they once belonged to. Some names should be marked off the names' list forever, for they belong to someone long gone and irreplaceable. And it would be such a burden for someone else to fill in for such names..."