I Want To Believe My Parents

    Almost every single time I meet someone new, the first thing  they notice is the fact that I have pretty big eyes. And while I usually just take their reactions as compliments, sometimes my train of thought whistles back to my roots. Starting with my name. Reema. My parents have always told me that the meaning of my name is "baby deer with beautiful eyes," in Arabic. I loved it! Come on, who wouldn't?

   Little did I know, my folks have been...stretching the meaning. I just looked up the actual Arabic definition of it, and it turns out that my name is just a version of the name "Reem," which means white antelope.

White antelope..

..Baby deer with beautiful eyes.

Close enough.