Passionate Identity: A Journey From Within

My name is Nancy Shui Yuan Chen Kerr Perez Baldwin. That’s a mouthful. What a name, what a life, and what a journey. I don’t know about you, but I like to know people by their full names. It gives me a sense of emotional connection with the person I am about to meet. A name is not just a label, but the start of a life journey. I know we don’t always like the birth names we were given. We had no control over the love and joy of our parents when they selected the names for us. Like it or not, that’s where it all began. That was the beginning of our identity. Moreover, we may add or subtract parts of our names along the way, based on our life experiences: our names become the bases of our individual, unique stories.