How I became an angel...the story behind the screen name

Gilded: Gild \Gild\, v. t. 1. To overlay with a thin covering of gold; to cover with a golden color; to cause to look like gold. 2. To make attractive; to adorn; to brighten.3. To give a fair but deceptive outward appearance to; to embellish.

Angel: \An"gel\, n. 1. A messenger. 2. A spiritual, celestial being, superior to man in power and intelligence. 3. An appellation given to a person supposed to be of angelic goodness or loveliness; a darling.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

Being online is not as easy as one might think. Most people think that all you need is a computer and a modem, but that is not it. Along with having the required hardware and software, there is something else that we need : the perfect screen name.

A screen name is not only an identification device, it is also a glimpse into who we are, what we stand for, who we want to be. And because of this, often times, it is very difficult to get the perfect screen name in the first try.

Here is my list:

The Pepsi screen names were my first ones, and I was very proud of them, but then again, I was very inexperienced. I thought that by having a product I am all up for represent me, I would become the ideal person I guess, but then I didn`t realize that I wasn`t being me. I realized this after one of my friends asked me why I thought i was a pepsi or a pepsi was me...

so then the banana screen names were born...

and they were exactely what I what I wanted, or so I thought. As I was hiding behind a screen name I was still keeping the most important part of me, my name. And I was proud of that, it made me happy. I kept the Anna names for a few years, until I guess I kind of outgrew them. They were seeming just a little bit silly, and unfortunately I wasn`t the same person anymore...

so I began my search for the perfect screen name...

I asked my family, my friends, pretty much everybody I knew to help me find one, and for months I did that without much success. Until one day, somebody said to me that I was like an angel in their life, a beautiful warm angel and strangely enough, some others concurred with that vision of me, so GildedAngel was born. And there are times when I feel like I am not an angel anymore, that it is time for me to stretch my wings (no pun intended) and fly elsewhere, but it is at times like those that somebody reminds me of why I chose the screen name to begin with, and how not only it is me as I am seen by others, but it is me as I see myself.