Truth Thru Each Name

 This is everything I learned from the original three different versions of myself. I took each of these names traveling to different places in my head. I called myself Grace in Star Trek. Miri in Greek Mythology times and 'in an age when nature and magic ruled the world'. Which is a description from the opening credits of the TV show Beastmaster. Didn't call myself Sophie very much but I would have in any 20th or 21st century setting, like Sliders or Stargate Sg-1. 

To fix an ancient problem of having that name actually kind of forced on me by the first people to use it. They assumed it was my given name on my birth certificate because the name 'Sophie' fit me so well, -- without even asking me what my name was -- The took a name they thought suited my personality and called me that as if it was my NAME. I mean it did make sense. Sophia means lover of wisdom and Sophie means wise one. And it did fit me like a glove. But to avoid getting reminded of those super early, brief TV characters and adventures, I stopped calling myself that in any of my adventures. By the time I saw Criminal Minds,  I called myself 'Sarah' in modern adventures. Well "Sasha Jordan Scott, known as Sarah to her friends." 

And Miri meant "Child of peace" and I was no longer a child. Plus there was like a 17 year period in my life where I felt super Dis-connected from that identity. So when I traveled to BBC's Merlin or anything like that I called myself Sasha. Because I sort of associated with the name. And he name means "Inner beauty" so it still sort of fit.

But anyway each of these 'mantras' belongs to 

Miri: 

A horrible death at the end of a good life is better than a quiet death at the end of a wasted one.

Sophie: 

That existing to continue your existence isn't worth existing, if your existence isn't worth fighting for.

Grace: 

That giving up your life is worth it if it makes a difference in the life of your friends; whether that 'life' is your existence or your time. (your permanent death or your freedom)

Lisa: 

What makes life worth living isn't the big stuff it's the important stuff...and those two things rarely coincide.

That last one is MINE from my own Pleasant Valley Middle School, Wichita KS high school, living with divorced parents, going to two different churches, all my life.