Mixed Name

Everyone has different name because they were born from different culture and place. Both of my parents are Javanese. My parents gave name to their children by using the element of java. They are quite good to keep the Javanese culture, even I was always ordered to speak Javanese at home.

I am the middle child, it means that I have one elder brother, one elder sister, and two young sisters. Actually, my name does not reflect Javanese, thus which made me confused. My name is mixed between modern name and arabic word. I know the meaning of the arabic one but I do not know the modern one. But, I knew why my parents gave that name to me. When I asked them about the parentage of my name, my parents told me that there were two people who contributed.

My first name was given by my aunt, but when I asked them why my aunt gave that name, they said that they did not know. So I tried to find the meaning by asking my aunt but my aunt also did not know about the real meaning. She just told me that she gave that name because she liked with that word. It represented her idol at that time. She told me that her idol was so handsome and smart.

So I took conclusion by myself that my first name had good meaning. The meaning of my first name is handsome and smart based on my aunt explanation. Unfortunately, my aunt passed away when she was puerperal the third daughter. So that is why I thanked to my aunt for giving the great first name. I hope that my first name could lead me to be a handsome man and smart one.

My last name was given by my grandfather when he still alive. My grandfather passed away when I was six years old. I do not have a good memorize about him, I could only remember the moment when I played shoot gun with him in the yard. By the way, he gave me the arabic name which is according to the meaning is mercy. Maybe, my grandfather wanted me to be the one who could get abundant mercies from God.

I think that nothing special with my name but I thanked to God for having this name. Since I am as a student of elementary school, I hate to introduce my name and tell the meaning of my name. For introduction, I needed to tell the long time to share and I hate to speak a lot. So, I tried to avoid the long process of introduction when I was a student in elementary and secondary high school. I still remembered why I hate to introduce my name, it is because of when I told the truth about the meaning of my name a lot of my friends kept laughing. They thought that I was a liar. Since that day, I hate to introduce my name.

I will try to keep their expectations of me. They gave my name to me because they believe that the good name can bring the good personality. So they trust me that I can be a good person so there is no reason to me to be ashamed of my awesome name. My name is Andik Hidayat and I was proud of having this name.