A Name is such an elusive thing

I wanted to call this blog Hyperbole since I have these hugely exaggerated ideas about the value of my opinions. I like to believe that I merely need to voice a thought to set a colossal change in motion. Anyway someone beat me to it in the blogging zone. So I had to settle for the innocuous JustJots.

A little before I thought of Hyperbole, I tossed around 'Echo' and decided that it was too hollow to be me :) Ahem, well I looked up for the origin of Echo and found out that Echo was a mountain nymph, in Greek Mythology, condemned to speak only in echoes because her chattering distracted the goddess Hera from the infidelity of Zeus. Unable to declare her love for Narcissus, Echo pined away in solitude until her bones turned to stone and only her voice remained. After such a background, Echo hardly suited my naming criteria. So out went Echo.

A few minutes before the Echo thought originated there was Hydra, which to my petty delight was a thing which is hard to overcome or resist because of its pervasive or enduring quality or its many aspects. Unfortunately Greek Mythology intervened and I realized that Hydra was a many-headed snake whose heads grew again as they were cut off.

On reconsideration, I think I will happily live with JustJots. Not many myths to live with on this one.