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Tattoos Are Our Friends

1/23/2018

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Our bodies are a road map of all our personal experiences throughout a lifetime of experience. Sometimes Life sees fit to mark us with physical reminders of what we have done; a scar on the leg, a discoloration from a burn. Often those scars are not a choice, but we lived to tell the tale. It's part of the road map. 

Tattoos are colorful scars, in a sense. They are also deeply personal things. When we choose to willfully mark our bodies in remembrance of a symbolic moment in our lives, we get to be creative with how that is expressed.

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We ink our bodies with the names of loved ones, spiritual references and symbolic imagery. When we do that, we tell a story of what has gone on in our life that meant something to us. After the initial shock of pain, we begin to ease into the discomfort, knowing that it hurts for a reason. There are moments of "OH FUCK THIS HURTS!" but we breathe through it because it's what helps us deal with the fact that our skin is being ripped apart with a needle and ink.​

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The end product is something symbolic and priceless and the pain was worth it all along, as we live through the pain of endless hours of the needle & Ink so that a picture can be painted on our skin that symbolizes who we are and how we want to be seen. Tattoos are the way many of us mark our rites-of-passages through life. Tattoos give our bodies an opportunity tell to others of the personal journeys we might not have the words for. Tattoos transform the beauty of an experience into art. ​

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