Hi, I am Tina

"Hi, I am Tina. "

"Hi, I am Hope." I said while we shook hands.

"Oh, what a beautiful name!"

"Thank you!"

"I wish I could have that name"

"You can give yourself that name if you want."

"I can? Really?"

"Yes, why not? You can give yourself any name you want."

"I am not sure. I don't know whether my parents would be happy about it."

"Ask them."

"They are dead."

Tina is a 50-year-old, lovely woman.

She is still living her dead parents' expectations.

Whose expectations are you living?