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There's a billion and one threads about would you get tattoos, do you like tattoos, do you think tattoos are sexy, and etc. But I don't think I've seen one that asks people to share theirs yet, so here I am making it.
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There's a billion and one threads about would you get tattoos, do you like tattoos, do you think tattoos are sexy, and etc. But I don't think I've seen one that asks people to share theirs yet, so here I am making it.
Basically, you'd just share a picture if you have one, and what it means to you if you want to. If you can't get a picture you like, describe it for us in detail. But I think it'd be really neat to see some of the ink that this nifty community has.
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i have eight and pretty much love them all.
here are a few of them.
my most recent tattoo, my 'tramp stamp' as my boy calls it. it's the symbol of the sicilian flag, where i spent 6 months a couple years ago. i fell in love with the mediterranean sea there.
my next to most recent tattoo, in its healing stages, which were rough. i kept banging this on everything and it's still not really healed properly, 6 mos later.
it's a symbol that pervaded my meditating mind while sitting in a 10 day silent vipassana meditation retreat in tuscany, italy.
it says
love.
give.
in my own handwriting. theyre commands to myself.
can't see it too well but it's the sanskrit writing for the pali word (pali, the lost language of the buddha) 'anicca.' the nature of impermanence. the central idea in the dhamma philosophy.
my key, my first big tattoo. well, big for me. shortly after its re-inking.
it's a very long story behind it.
i have this tattooed to the right of my pubic triangle. in my no no area. also known as the yes yes area. it was my first tattoo. the scene in the book and movie where he's repeatedly asking 'who ARE you?'
i also have a one-lined simple dark gray tattoo that runs from deep in my pubic hair up my belly, to my belly button and up my chest, around my right breast. it is a vine, with a few curlicues around it.
you can see a little bit of the top of it here
it makes mah boobs look bigger.
i want to get 'tutto é perfetto così come é' below my tramp stamp. it means 'everything is perfect as it is' in italian. to remind me to stop freaking out.
all my tattoos are reminders to myself to be a better person, to think of the grander scheme. to remind myself of my tiny place in the universe, yet still my importance being a small part of the grandest thing in existence... the universe.
i probably wont stop etching those messages into my skin until i get it. meaning i'll probably be covered in tats someday. ha.
everything is perfect as it is!
update* looks like i cant get any of my links to show up. oh wells. guess they're not meant to be seen!
