Don’t be surprised if my sister and I don’t have the same last name. That’s because there are no actual family names here. Our parents are the ones who decide on our individual last names, but they wait at least three month before giving them us. That gives them enough time to get to know us, and have better idea of who we are.
Some children are given names according to the way they look. I have a friend who called Apple because he is very fat. If our looks don’t inspire anything in particular, our parents can also make up their minds according to the circumstances of our birth, or the quality they would like us to have.
This is a friend of me called Dharma, which means “good”, and his sister is called Murniati, means “pure heart”.
Had their parents preferred that they very smart, they would have called them Samarta or Pradnyana. And had they whished my friend’s sister to have a calm nature, they would have called her Santi. And had they thought about themselves a bit more, they would have called her Dharmi or Susilawati.
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