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Raining Aseems |
Every time in school when my name would be called out by my teacher for maintaining the attendance records or just while strolling in a park if I would hear it called out, I would gladly tell myself that ‘it’s for me’. And it certainly was. :) Living in a sparsely populated state of India, Goa, it was certain that there was no other Aseem around. There was no reason that I should not feel special about my not so common name. I couldn’t thank anybody else other than my parents for it!
The only problem I ever had was when people would make unsuccessful attempts in spelling out my name. Most thought that I was a Muslim and often wrote it as ‘Asim’, ‘Assem’ and all myriad more spellings. :x Then I had to get busy explaining these morons that Aseem is a word of Sanskrit origin…meaning one who does not have any boundaries! The very opposite of Seema. Well I really don’t have anything against any religion but then when it comes to my name I did like it to be how it is supposed to be…
Ok so coming back… I thought that I had the most unique name and there was no one else with the same. Wow!
But this belief was sure not to last long. I tried a search for Aseem on orkut. To find 350+ results. Whoa! Those were surely quite many and not to forget the Non-Orkut Aseems. Not the best numbers that I would like to count on my fingers. After brooding over the fact that there were more Aseems around, than I thought there could be(now should be :(), I was struck by an idea :idea: of networking all into a community. So I started a community The Aseems on Orkut to which I invited quite a few who shared the same name as mine…
2 days and we had about 90 members, all astonished to find more Aseems as they all thought they were the only ones. Ha… but I guess we are still better off. With every third person being a Rahul or a Sanjay, I guess it’s more a pride to be the lucky few as the Aseems. Having many Aseems in the community, from Amritsar to LA… we pals have a happening community in which we never bother of who posts as all are Aseems for sure. So can’t really differentiate! 8)