Steven Mobley
Jul 23, 2017 · 1 min read

Changing your name is nothing more than changing your brand. If you haven’t lived enough to establish your own brand equity to your own satisfaction, then maybe that is something you should re-evaluate rather than just changing your name. If somehow the idea of the name having some connection or similarity to something distasteful keeps you from being who you want to be, then I guess it can’t really hurt to change your name to an extent. On the flip side though, changing your name is denying the heritage and the name of your forefathers who bore the same name. You are dumping your connection with your lineage just to avoid any connection on paper with one person who in many cases has no biological connection to you. If you need that disconnect in order to move on with your life, go ahead. It isn’t likely going to affect anyone else, so it is just a personal matter. Just don’t expect it to change the way people perceive you or treat you. You are still gonna be the same person you’ve presented to them through whatever lens of bias they see the world through.

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