Growing up I had a lot of nicknames, but the weird part about all this is that I've never chosen a nick name for myself. The first nick name that I was given was icecream. This name was given to me by a college student. I don't quite remember why he gave me the name icecream but he said I looked like icecream(I don't know how true that was at that time). I've had this name follow me from primary 5 up until JHS. When I went to senior high I felt like the name was weird so I didn't want anyone to know I had a name like that.
Unfortunately for me my twin brother and I went to the same senior high so he ended up spilling the tea. In the long run people didn't call me that. Surprisingly, a lot of people only referred to me by my surname because they thought it was fascinating. I went to a school in the southern part of Ghana where the common language there is twi. In twi, Baako means one so a lot of people preferred calling me Baako to mean one. I had this fucked up friend who liked calling me number 1. That name was exclusive to him as he was a senior and he would've punished anyone he heard calling me number 1 except him. That name died when he completed.
I've had the chance to change my name once and the only brilliant idea I could come up with was shorting my name from Rubilu to Ruby. At first I didn't think about it but now I think it's pretty dumb to call myself Ruby cause it's a girls name. A lot of people find it hard to mention Rubilu so I wanted to make it easy for them but it didn't work out so well. Now some girls call me sister Ruby, some even go as far as calling me Ruby Baby lol.
Am not one who fights over people calling me nicknames I don't like. I only laugh about it and I move on with my life. I've realized that when you don't pay attention to them the chance of it going away is high. But in my case it doesn't go away.
Now am called Crypto boy. This name was not picked by me. A friend who knows I love crypto realated stuff gave me the name. The reason being I literally don't do anything with my phone except look at charts and trade leverage. Once we were in class for a lecture and when I opened my phone the first thing I checked was my binance account. He caught a glimpse of it and the first thing he said was I like crypto too much. He came up with crypto boy and that instant he changed my name from Rubllu to Crypto Boy in his contact list.
I know am supposed to choose my own name but I seem to have fallen in love with this one. So if I was asked to pick a name for this weekend it will always be Crypto Boy. The reason being I love Crypto, am glad I invested my time in learning about it and I think my friend is right for giving me that name.
This is an entry to the weekend challenge by galenkp. You can find it here if you are interested on picking a topic to write from this weekend.
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