"Your children will become what you are; So be what you want them to be"

the other day, I quoted the above saying, saw it online somewhere… (that’s what I do daily in the cyberspace… looking for inspiration ^_^)
and now.. I remember one scene I watched off the Japanese drama, “jikou keisatsu” (時效警察)

the guy – kiriyama
the girl – shizuka (meaning – quiet)
both of them are police, one in the department that’s handling those “cold case” files… in japan, they actually give a timeline to cold cases, 15 years, vs. to US and elsewhere (I’ve not done much research yet, so, this is not absolute!) cold case is still a case, if the murderer is arrested, he still can be convicted, irregardless how many years have passed by…

anyway, that episode, suddenly kiriyama and shizuka were discussing about names, people’s names, and the meaning behind the names…
kiriyama told shizuka, normally, we’re opposite of the meaning of our name,
shizuka asked why, kiriyama further explain by taking her name as an example, he told her that, she’s very talkative, and noisy (she keeps talking most of the time, a very active and lively girl indeed) but yet, her name means “quiet”… see!
then, he further explain,
our name’s given by our parents,
and usually parents will hope that, our children (I said, “usually” only) will be somebody different from us, maybe we think that, we’re too loud, too noisy, so, when we’ve a girl, we hope she’s quiet, and ladylike… and therefore, we give them a name, as what we’ve hoped… in this case, “shizuka” - quiet
but then, kids follow their parents, in the end, the ‘hope’ doesn’t come true, and the girl grows up exactly just like the parents…
ie. shizuka is not shizuka.. but exactly like the parents (of course, I won’t know what the parents’ names are)

in conjunction with this phrase that I’ve quoted, haha, I thought it’s somehow true… ^_^