What's your name?

Ladies and gentlemen...

Before we get to the title, lemme ask you some of my other questions.

Are we going to stop moving too?

This is actually a question from my seven year old daughter that got me thinking too. If the world would stop moving around the sun and its axis, are we going to stop moving too?

I've read somewhere that the true measurement of everything is time. Without time, everything would not make sense.

So if the Earth would stop moving, would it stop the time too? Would we stop too like statues? Would the rain hang in mid-air? What would become of the world if everything stopped?

Why do you love her so much?

This is the question that I can't formulate a logical answer. To any parent out there reading this, why do you love your child so much?

So much that I would do anything for her. Sacrifice everything just for her sake. Give everything I have for her.

If I would say, because she's my daughter. That would be an acceptable answer. But why?

My love for her is so much different that I felt for my parents, for my siblings, for my husband, for my friends. My two girls occupy the most part in my heart, and it is very special. Is there a scientific explanation to this?

If you could turn back time, would you do things differently?

This is an old time question but it still makes one ponder before giving their well-thought answer.

If I have the opportunity to turn back time twice, then I will.

Why twice? Because I would like to see the outcome if I would take a different path, turned left instead of right. Where would I end up? Who would I become? Would I be richer or live in a dumpster?

However it turned out to be, I still wanted to go back to my original timeline. I've made a lot of wrong and right decisions. Things that would've been better if I chose the choice I ignored. But despite all the mistakes I've made, it still led me to a happy life. Of course with ups and downs, rainy and sunny; nevertheless a happy life.

What's your name?

This is the first question we ask whenever we meet someone new. We wanted to be friends with them so we asked their name. But lately, I've been asking this to myself, what is your name?

Me and my husband met in an online game. We know only with our in-game name. Before we became official, he mentioned me to his friends, and family using my in-game name. Technically, they all got used to calling me with that name instead of my real name.

We got married. I moved to their place which is an eight hour trip from Manila, two airplane rides from the province where I was born. Far from the two places where it became my home.

In the place where I am now, they call me by that name. Until I became so used to it. Until I somehow forgot the sound of my real name.

It felt so weird hearing it even with my own voice. It sounded like someone else's name, a stranger.

When I was in labor with my second child, I was in so much pain. The doctors used my real name to get my attention. It felt so weird, it was like they were calling someone else, not me.

It feels like I have left it somewhere. A stranger, it doesn't sound the same like I remembered it to be. It is like a distant memory.

How about you, do you still know your name? What's your name?

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This is my entry to the #5 writing prompt Questions by @JonicaBradley

You may want to check out my other entries in this writing prompt.

#3 Similarities - The Curious Case of Fried Towel

#4 Darkness - The Ghost and The Tree

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