I was a teen when he was elected and I recall being disappointed he took the name "John Paul II" since it suggested a lack of creativity - we just had a John Paul, if only for a month. That obviously doesn't say much for my maturity level and becomes hysterical in hindsight because to attribute to him a lack of orginality would prove so absurdly false. True freedom and creativity come paradoxically in following God. George Stephanopoulos reported that in his last moments the Pope asked that Psalm 119 be read, and in it contains the key to his life:
I run in the path of your commands,
for you have set my heart free.
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