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Chatper 3: A Name

#Name:
There is saying if you're great your name live more than your lifetime.

A time came to choose my name. My beloved father wanted my name to be "Selva Rathinam" named after his father. My father used to say that my grandfather in his death bed felt so bad mourning that he couldn't help his son for survival since he left him with nothing except the courage to live.
To make his father feeling to be satisfied he named me so that the success and happiness at present could be visualised by his son name after his grandfather.  Sometimes even now he calls me "Naina" that means father.

My mom doesn't want to call me by her father-in-law name out of respect which made her think to join his favourite brother name "Santhosh" in the front.

Ya, this made my name as, "Santhosh Selva  Rathinam".

Santhosh - 'Happiness'
Selva - 'Wealth'
Rathinam - 'Rare and Precious'

From my thoughtful age until now whenever I feel low I will think on my name for a second, it tells me to live with Happiness to grow Wealth and to be Rare and Precious always. Yes this attitude that my name gives me makes me ignore thoughts that make me low and concentrate on things that make me go heights.

With this long name, I have been put in a school called St.Thomas English Preparatory School.
What do you think? Am I bright student or a dull student?

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