I'm not so sure how I feel about the whole tattoo situation at this point. I personally haven't found anything I'd want hanging off of my when I'm 80, but there's also not been a real meaningful event in my life that I felt the need to mark on my body. I work with a lady who has 2 full sleeves, kind of a patchwork deal to mark different life events. She once classifed them as her hand-picked stretch marks. It made sense- kind of a euphemism for the marks life events sometimes leave on us. I also have a friend who has a small tribal dragon in the small of her back. She chose the dragon after a pretty traumatic event because it is 'the protector of the lady'. I like the ones with story and meaning, and as said before, kind of the same way I like jewelry-- the antiques and the ones with real meaning and history are the ones that strike my fancy.

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I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart's affections and the truth of imagination. What the imagination seizes as beauty must be truth - whether it existed before or not.
-John Keats