Is it just a bit bizarre that when there are so many things in life that we can choose, where we live, what colour we want our hair to be, what field we want to work in, what we wear, our make-up, who to hook up with, where to go on a night out, we are pretty much stuck with the name we are given at birth?  We can choose to change it, not sure how, but really, how many people do you know that actually bother?  Mostly, we grow into our first names but the surnames.  Ugh!  Stuck with something awful, feeling guilty that by changing it you are insulting your parents, who by the way, no more chose theirs than you did yours.  Or if you have taken the name of a partner, cos that's what people did, you are insulting them and again I stress, they didn't choose theirs either.  Again.  Ugh!  With all the shit going on in the world, this is what people have to get upset about?  And to those who say, but it's your heritage, your identity.  Let me tell you, who and what we are is made up of so much more than our names.