Make a person's day.

People are getting depressed or gloomy around this world of ours and i think making people's day is a great small thing to do, which will lead to bigger things throughout the day. A compliment, a hug, a high-five or even a smile could make someone happy and feel good inside. The last time i made a compliment was today at soccer, somebody scored a cool goal(i forgot who :P) and i said nice goal and gave him a high five. Also, when i played a match againts Garden International today, someone shook my hand and said, "good game, you played well" to me after the game and that made me feel good. I think we should be doing what these two guys are doing in their school, giving compliments, and putting a smile on someone's face. These two boys did a good job doing it, and while they did it, they sounded sincere and not sarcastic. These two college boys took two hours of their own time to give compliments to cheer people up. It's nice to give a compliment becasue it makes you feel good and it makes the person you compliment feel good. I think we should go somewhere, like pavillion or KLCC giving people free compliments for a field trip. It would be pretty fun. We should maybe even spare some of our lunchtime to give free compliments around the school. We need compliments to cheer us up and to give us a good day.

picture:http://archives.chicagotribune.com/2009/mar/13/nation/chi-compliment-guys-13-mar13

my name

It means river. What kind of name means river? Rio was the weirdest name ever. Too short, too Spanish, and it doesn’t fit me at all. It just didn’t feel right. It was a boring name, and too different. I just thought I would end up with something simpler, something that fit me.

I was named after the Joseph from the Christian bible and I got the name Romario from my parent’s two names, Rosano and Maria. Why didn’t I stick with those names? Well, Joseph was easy to pronounce, but it just didn’t fit me at all. Being called Joseph was weird for me. When people would say my name, I wouldn’t respond. Then I tried Romario, but then they either pronounced it funny or got it mixed up with my last name, Rosano. This was not working.

I used to wish for a new name so that people will not tease me for it, and a name that would be so simple a cat could pronounce it. Then I stopped wishing. I demanded for a new one. Of course I can’t just get a new name just like that, but at least I tried.

The name Romario was just simply too hard to pronounce. They would call me Rosario, Rosano, Ronaro, or just Mario. They never got it right. They murdered the name. One day, someone pronounced it so fast all you could hear was the “rio”. I liked the sound of that. The shortness, the easiness to pronounce, everything. It was the name I always wished of getting. The name I always wanted. So I looked back and responded, “Yes?”

Ever since I heard that name, more people kept calling me it. It I would ask them to or they would just go off calling me that. After that year, everyone called me Rio. It was officially my new name.

People still teased me and called me Rio de Janeiro or Rio Grande and thought they were so funny. Yes the name those mean river and it is a Spanish origin, but the name sounds like me. It’s short, simple, easy and unique. Just like me.

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