So far in my life people either make Mariah Carey jokes after my name leaves my lips or get it wrong and say Mah-re-ah instead of Moh-ri-ah. I let it slip off my skin and carry on laughing about it in the process. I love my name, most of the time, but there is a question that has arisen in my thoughts as of late and it is finally time to provide an answer to that very question. Does my name fit my personality? A name can define a person, sculpt them into the person they are or the name can be off base and just be their name with no connection to their soul.
Throughout my 16 years on this Earth, I have asked my mom the same question Why did you pick my name? She would tell me that she got Moriah, a Hebrew name, from a dream where she already had me and called me by that name while I was in her stomach waiting to come out and see the world. Luckily she gave me that name because according to nameberry.com, my name means “God is my teacher” which is quite a fitting meaning because it is a name of a mountain in the Bible. Raised by a religious family, my life revolves around God and his teachings. I always find myself fall astray and revert back to the demons that fiddle with my brain but I would always come back to him and try to learn from him piece by piece.
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I’m fine with continuously brushing people’s Mariah Carey comments off my shoulders and having to say, “my name is said Moh-ri-ah,” to substitute teachers that think my name is said like it is written on the paper like Maria when it’s not if it means keeping my name. My name isn’t just my name but is me. It is the name I have worn my whole life, on every name tag and paper I wrote a name on. When I become an author then everyone will see my name written on my books unknowingly revealing who I am. Moriah J.
Throughout my 16 years on this Earth, I have asked my mom the same question Why did you pick my name? She would tell me that she got Moriah, a Hebrew name, from a dream where she already had me and called me by that name while I was in her stomach waiting to come out and see the world. Luckily she gave me that name because according to nameberry.com, my name means “God is my teacher” which is quite a fitting meaning because it is a name of a mountain in the Bible. Raised by a religious family, my life revolves around God and his teachings. I always find myself fall astray and revert back to the demons that fiddle with my brain but I would always come back to him and try to learn from him piece by piece.
A person with the name Moriah has a great love of nature and the outdoors according …show more content…
I’m fine with continuously brushing people’s Mariah Carey comments off my shoulders and having to say, “my name is said Moh-ri-ah,” to substitute teachers that think my name is said like it is written on the paper like Maria when it’s not if it means keeping my name. My name isn’t just my name but is me. It is the name I have worn my whole life, on every name tag and paper I wrote a name on. When I become an author then everyone will see my name written on my books unknowingly revealing who I am. Moriah J.