Your life. On a Banner.

Imagine if your life is a roll-up banner, X-banner, or whatever type of banner. Banner. What would you write on it? I'm not suggesting something like: Beloved father, loyal husband and caring friend. It's not a tombstone you're writing on. It's a banner. A wide piece of cloth/plastics that people strech up in the air accross a road or the ones that people display on a steel frame in malls, in public. What would you write?

Most of you may want to write your name. You can. But come on people, be more original. Besides, others will judge you on first name basis. You know, all the philosophical, cultural and religous atributes that may be embedded in your name. Most people expect you to live up to your name. If not, they will try to link your name with your looks, origin, educational background, occupation and all social status you may posses. If you live up to that pre-conceived image, then a smile will greet you. So now, ever wonder why some would frown at the sound of your name?

Or do you let others write them for the you. Have them pick the words, punctutuation,precise grammatical structures that prevent ambiguity? You may say that people know you better since they're the ones observing your every action and then translate them into a perception of you in their brain, thus YOU are what they think and say. But is that how it suppose to work? I'm not into the whole 'be yourself' lecture. One could argue that one's concept of 'self' is an ever-evolving identity that is dynamic and will keep on changing even after the person's gone. So let's get back to the question, what would you write on yor banner?