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Message: <blockquote data-quote="haiiro" data-source="post: 1928005" data-attributes="member: 1891">Haiiro is an archaic word for "gray," or "the color of ash" in Japanese. I took and enjoyed a lot of Asian studies courses in college, and when I was casting around for a new username about 5 years ago, this one jumped out at me. It has always been very deliberately lowercase.At the time, I identified strongly with the idea that people are mostly gray in terms of morality -- never black or white. Five years later, I still think that's a pretty basic truth, but I'm happier with myself and identify less with it on a personal level.Oddly enough, it was seeing this thread that made me think about that -- until then, it's been my username (here and elsewhere) for so long that it just seemed natural to me. I'll probably stick with it, but I'm less certain of how natural it feels anymore.Can you tell that I tend to overthink things? <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /></blockquote>