🕶️
When I was a younger, I never liked "Megan", it didn't feel like it fit me. Whenever I went someplace new where people wouldn't have to know me for a long time, I tried out different names for myself to see what would fit, but nothing else really did. As an adult, I finally feel like Megan/Meg is right. I've come to appreciate the ways my friends have shaped it and made it their own little codeword for me, like Mego, Mango, even my username Meggle came from friends. I finally feel at home in Megan, it just took me a bit of time.
Related Recs
🧸
I've had issues with my name, I never really liked or identified with it until recently. I think it's really pretty but idk it just never felt connected to me. Thankfully, it isn't my full first name, Amaya-mei, so online and for a chunk of my life I went by "Mei" and most people who've met me online still call me that.
Now, I've come to really like my own name, whether it's Amaya, Amaya-mei, or Mei. But I've also really enjoyed being called by the usernames that I choose. So Juniper, Cosmo, Meiji, etc. In the end go with what feels right for you! I've had sooo many names across the interwebs and they all feel like me. So I'd say go with what feels like you.
Jun 7, 2024
🎀
family name nothing too exciting (mom has the same middle name and so on) but my parents are very cute for naming me Megan and having my initials be M.E.G. (Megan Elizabeth G********)
Mar 7, 2024
✍️
perhaps it was a desperate need to fit in, but i used to tell kids in school that my real name was actually emily. i genuinely don't think i fooled anyone with that lie, especially when my accent was still very noticeable whenever i spoke back then.
regardless, i thought my first name was too long and it was a pretty common name to have in colombia, so i always sported it like something that was mandated, assigned, but not something i actually appreciated.
throughout the years, i met a couple of emilys, each very lovely, who fit the name very well. and that's when it clicked: i couldn't actually picture myself carrying that name for the rest of my life and truly feeling at home with it.
valentina still felt like a mouthful, but i realized it did actually feel like me. anyways, that was a pretty long time ago and i cherish my first name in all its nine-character glory.
i hope you find comfort and feel at home with your first name/chosen name– it's so important to how we view and present ourselves.
Nov 21, 2024
Top Recs from @meggle
I just wanted to laugh at stupid shit on youtube forever, was that too much to ask for?
(Add your fave stupid youtube video here)
1d ago
I just wanna be a lil guy living in a cottagecore world, sipping from a thimble. Instead, I must "complete sprints" and "log time" on a screen all day.
Alas, the yearning continues.
1d ago
🔀
"the last summer i was truly naive and happy before it all came crashing down and I got taller" (mostly early aughts divorced dad rock because nostalgia)
"anachronistic shrek soundtrack considerations" (it's exactly what it sounds like - what modernish songs would be on a 2024 Shrek soundtrack)
and
"grocery store shimmy" (just light songs from the 80's and 90's that give me grocery store vibes)
Apr 15, 2024