Nicknames - the proof that we're lazy

Once again I sat at my bed and thought: "What on earth should I write about?" and then I thought of some of my friends because we had a grill-party-cinema-thingy the other day - and then I realized that I thought about one of them with a nickname I gave her. So BOM we're going to talk about nicknames!

Well first of all I think the idea of having a nickname is great but also a bit lazy. Seriously, you have to be honest, one of the reasons why you give someone a nickname is because their real name is too tiring to keep repeating. For example if your name is Christopher your nickname might be Chris and if you're a girl and named Elisabeth your nickname might be Lizzie simply because it's easier and faster to say! Gosh the human race is lazy. But of course we also give each other nicknames because we like them. We want to show others that we care about them and that they're special to us, so we give them another name. You all know that I have a friend named Camilla and one day we decided to give each other a nickname. Now mine is Michael and hers is Marius. We just choose them, the names themselves have no deeper meaning if I may say so, but it's our way of showing our friendship to one another.

Also I have another friend but we simply have the same nickname for both of us. We call each other "blud" but it's said like "blood" apparently an English way of saying "friend" or "mate". We thought it was a bit amusing to call each other that so we adopted the word and made it ours. Oh and you all know me by my nickname Sille since everyone is too lazy to say my actual name.

Bill from True Blood - aka Biiiiiiiiiiiiill! *Sookie voice*

Before I end this there's one more thing that annoys me - nicknames which doesn't make any sense! When I was younger I read all the Harry Potter books, and I really admired the Weasley family and at one point Bill Weasley was going to get married. Then I read that his real name was William and I thought: "Are you kidding me? How can you be called William and have a nickname which isn't even close at showing what you real name is?!" I was very frustrated, I still am, because for me the obvious choice for a guy named William is to call him Will. Apparently I later found out that it's pretty normal to be called Bill if your name is William, for example I saw this in True Blood where one of the main characters is named so... Still it annoys me! Anypotter I think I'll end it here with the conclusion that nicknames are great and I sound like a hypocrite but that's just me.... Sille is out!