Soren Westergaard
4 min readNov 23, 2022

A ROSE BY ANY OTHER NAME…

How A Name Really Can Influence Who We Become.

“What’s in a name? That which we call a rose,

by any other name, would smell as sweet.”

Romeo and Juliet

Act 2 scene 2

William Shakespeare



What is in a name?

That is an excellent question.

What is in a name, William?

Or should I call you Willy…Billy perhaps?

The simple fact that the name William Shakespeare flows from the tongue like fine honey, and makes most of us listen

Soren Westergaard

Leaping from shadow to shadow; carving active runes into everything that I touch...