The story within the story of a nickname

Today I will tell you how I got my nickname, Serena    Bluemoon. There are actually 2 stories of it.

1. My mother had always had this thing with names. And when I was born she wanted to give me a beautiful and unusual name. She wanted to call me Serena,  because in Latin means "calm", " bright", "happy" and she thought this was a perfect  description of me.  But at those times, people would look weird at you if you had a  less normal name so she had to give me a name that was used more often. Irina. But  this doesn't mean it isn't also very beautiful, because she knew this name meant  "peace" in Greek and Eirene was the Goddess of peace, celebrated in Greece but also  in Romania (Saint Irina - May 5th). Later, she found out that the same name she  already gave me meant "serenity" in Hebrew :)

2. My grandmother had told me some really awesome stories since I was a kid. But  one of them I loved the most. It was about two teens, a princess and a future king  named Moon and Sun. But, exactly like the Shakespearean story, Romeo and Juliet,  the families of our lovers hated each other. One day, the princess and the prince ran away together and hid in a cave when their parents started to look for them. They knew that that cave was the home of an old and poor but very good and powerful witch. They asked her to help them and she offered to lodge them in her house. But what they didn't know was that the old witch was payed by the father of the princess to make a spell to break up the lovers. Because she was very poor and the princess's father gave her a lot of money, she accepted. Therefore, when the lovers came to her for help, she put a potion in their drinks. The potion worked and the lovers broke up, but they were so depressed and felt like a part of them was missing that they killed themselves. The witch knew then that what they had was true love, something that she was trying to find her whole life, but never could and she lost her faith. She felt so guilty that she made a deal with the Goddess of the sky. She would give up her powers for the lovers to be reunited. Then, because she couldn't bring the lovers back to life, the Goddess transformed them into two sky luminaries so that they could see each other a couple of  months a year. They thanked the Goddess by bringing her their son Paragon (Luceafarul) to light her sky most of the night. The story also says that one night, when Paragon grew up, he heard the princesses mother arguing with her father on the balcony of their palace. She was mad because she found out that he went to the witch for help and she cursed him to never see Moon on the sky again. When he met his parents, Paragon told them what he heard. Moon was so angry that she turned red the next night and punished her father by showing him that she has royal blood and she can do whatever she wants. So she influenced the sea to flood the palace. She spared her mother but the water took her father and put him in sand with his head out so that all day he would look at Sun, the one whom he hated and never see Moon at night because he was blinded by the light of Sun by day. The story is a dramatic one, but the idea is that true love must never broke because there might be some ugly consequences, like the tragic end of Moon's father.

A few years ago I decided to use online the nickname Serena  :) And this was even before I heard the story from my mom. Can this mean that the name chooses the baby and not viceversa? Also, I chose the nickname's surname Bluemoon because I believe in true love and I like the idea of protecting the right to be with whom we want by showing our "royal blood". This doesn't mean we have to get angry and do bad things, but we have to get the respect from people to make them let us live our life the way we want.

That was the story of my nickname Serena Bluemoon. Hope you enjoyed it!