It’s patently clear that parents who bestow their offspring names beginning with the letter X are trying to make a potent statement about their desire for their child to buck society’s conventions. Not that there are any dire consequences to this deed, mind you, but chances are this act of free expression will produce a child with an independent spirit and a high level of self-esteem.
There’s little doubt that X children will quickly learn how to cope with the vagaries of their names; for the X is like a bulls-eye in the playground. But after the taunts of adolescence mature into the teenage appreciation for the unusual, the young X will enjoy a sense of pride in standing out from the herd. If Xs sometimes find themselves labeled as the black sheep of their families, it’s a label they wear proudly. And it’s this sense of ‘feeling special’ that comes to define the Xs’ lives.
There are usually few vulnerable edges to the X’s complex emotional makeup. These are people who have long since explored themselves from top to bottom and have made peace with their own idiosyncrasies. This gives them the ability to play counselor to their generally large set of friends and hangers-on, and even though they’ll usually end up as a leader of their social pack, it isn’t a role that they have to campaign for.
Xs are drawn to things that fall outside the norm and seem determined to maintain their status as outsiders. They usually subscribe to unconventional philosophies, and although you could describe them as being amiable and attentive, they are difficult to emotionally pin down. The Xs’ oddities inevitably lend them an irresistible charm and they know how to draw crowds at parties with their latest theories on yoga, spoon-bending or impressionistic paintings.
In the marriage department, X mates can be hard to fathom. In fact if you're a stickler for predictability, you might want to give the X a miss entirely (or join the queue of broken hearts in this charmer's wake). But if you do happen to be "the one," you can expect charming surprises and odd expressions of affection from your eccentric mate. But be aware that Xs tends to suffer from disillusionment regarding marriage; for as much as they fantasize about the rewards of having a committed relationship, they often discover that marriage is too much like hard work.
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