Some recent posts have discussed how words program our experiences negatively or positively. Another recent post was a notice that a forum member was reverting to a previous user name, having adopted a temporary one due to a computer problem.

I look at some of the user names and wonder whether they are beneficial for recovery. Take my own -- Wants2Fly. Will I always be stuck in "wanting" to fly -- but never get to spreading my wings and feeling that life "is my oyster" waiting to be plucked from the great sea of experience?

In fact, I've been thinking about changing it to something else. Perhaps Salima, my Sufi name, which means the Deep Peace. Which is, in my case, also an aspiration rather than a realization.

I'm interested in hearing from those who would like to share on such questions as:

* How did you choose your login name? What does it mean to you?

* Is it fair to other users on the forums to change a user name (not bec. of something like a computer glitch, which is out of one's control, but just because one feels like it)?

* What do you think would be the best qualities for a user name to embody? Should it be a variation of our "real-life" name? Should it express how we feel at the time we become members? Or what we'd like to be? Or some largely unvarying quality of who we are?

I'll be interested in finding out what you think.