Five girls share a common Destiny, or Destinee
Destinee Amos said, “I like my name. I think it’s unique because of the way it’s spelled and I don’t plan on changing it ever.” Her father came up with the name because he felt it was a cute name for his first born, but it wasn’t the first time the name showed up in the family. “I have an older cousin named Destinee,” Amos said. She’s aware of the other four girls at Armijo who share a similar name, although they all spell theirs with a –y at the end rather than an –ee. She’s even met one of them at a Girls’ Basketball meeting. She has also met five other girls outside of Armijo who spell their name the way she spells hers.
The other four girls at Armijo, those whose name is “Destiny,” agreed that it is a good name. Destiny Boyd said, “I think my name is pretty nice. It’s just a name.”
“I don’t think it’s a bad name,” said Destiny Jackson. I think it’s a pretty name and I think it fits me.” She said that her mother named her. “When I came into her life, I changed her fate,” she Jackson said. She’s met other girls who share her name, but not at Armijo. When people hear her name mentioned in a lesson or a book, they usually bring it to her attention.
Destiny Murphy agreed that it is a good name. “I don’t see anything wrong with the name Destiny, especially since it’s my own name,” she said. She believes her mother came up with the name but doesn’t know of any story behind it. When people meet her they tease her all the time, mentioning the singing group Destiny’s Child. She said that she would not ever create her own name, if she had to be named something else. “I’m not creative enough for that,” she said.
The veteran of the group, the one that had been focused on in the March 2018 issue for having the name, is Destiny Ragsdale who said, “It’s a okay name; it’s nice and simple.” She was also named by her father. . “My father… said that it was fate that I be born,” said Ragsdale.
While they share the same name, and many share the same origin of their name, they have vastly different perspectives of the future, of their destinies.
Amos said, “After high school I plan on going to UCLA and finding a job that pays well, that’s pretty much it for now.” When she thought about it, though, she said that she might actually want to go to Alabama State University.
Jackson, on the other hand is considering the Navy. “There’s a lot of things I have planned for the future, so I can’t really answer that right now,” she said.
For Boyd, her goal is to find a nice job, “probably somewhere in the mall, but I also want to go to college, but I don’t know which one I want to apply for,” she said.
“I want to go to college so I can leave Fairfield,” said Murphy. “There are so many colleges I want to apply for like Stanford and Princeton ,but those are super hard to get in to so I don’t really know what I want to do yet. I just need to finish high school first.”
Ragsdale’s future is something she has to look at seriously as a senior. “I either want to go to UC Davis or Berkeley,” she said, “but probably UC Davis because I think people get accepted there more often.”
