My Name is Jerson Santos

This is a boring day, so might I might as well post a none sense post.

Since I was a child, I always wonder why did my parents gave me the name Jerson. You know like compared it to my siblings ( Shiela, Elizalde, Elizabeth, Artemio). They even got nicknames, uhm well, i do have, but what like jengkoy and engkoy(compared to Lei,Boy,Gay,Jojo). They said that it was given to me by my godmother.

As time goes by, I started to wonder if my name is unique (eventually, i found out that it is not). I always thought that it is a variation of the name "Jason" or "Jayson". Even my teachers mistaken my name as Ja(y)son. I always wonder what my name really means. I mean that everyone knows their name or where it originates. You can even find their names in baby books. Mine? Up to now, I really don't know what my name really means, I don't even saw my name in baby books. It is not a combination of my father's and mother's name, well not that I want my name to be like that ( Imagine Artelindo or Rosamio, eew!) . Its just that all I know that it was given by my godmother for the reason of heaven knows what.

During my toddler years, I wanted to have a good nickname. For some strange reason I wanted my nickname to be JC, first got the idea from a burger house near our school,Jaycee, and my Initials are JCS, so minus the S. But that don't succeed, I still ended up with Jerson. All my elementary life upto 2nd year Highschool, I got no nickname. Although sometime in my elementary life they called me Daddy Jerson.

Then came third year, a certain friend started calling me Je. Then everybody in our class adopted the name Je so I started using that nickname since then. Actually, almost all of my college friends and 3rd year and 4th year friends called me Je while my elem and 1st-2nd year friends call me Jerson no big actually.

Then came fourth year college when Nina started to call me Jerbyness and it evolves to Jerby and now Honeypie started calling me Jerbs. Removing the R is strictly forbidden.

Actually, the people who I allow to call me Je are those who are close to me. I don't usually use Je when I'm not comfortable with the crowd. Well, while I'm here in Starcom, Ms. Becky, the HR, don't want me to use Je as my nickname and she said that we should settle with Jerson so that it sounds more business like. Given my name, Jamie gave me a new nickname, Jersky. So almost everyone in Starcom is starting to call me Jersky. Eventually, Jersky started to have variations thanks to Ms. Liza. Jersky became Jerky and worse it became Jerk. Hehehe.

I won't be hypocrite and say that I don't want my name changed given a chance. There are still times that I'm thinking to change my name in some sort of more maganda and I know the meaning of my name. But then again, my name brought me where I'm at right now and I met wonderful persons with my name so I should settle na lang with my name. Name doesn't really matter naman talaga. It doesn't matter what your name means, what matters is how will you give meaning to your name.

Besides Jerson is not as common as Mary Ann*.;P

*Based from an applicant of Statsoc Batch 03-A, who never made it as a member.